How To: Automate Continuous SQLServer Activity with Stored Procedures and Powershell Jobs
The Goal
It’s often useful to be able to run a bunch of stored procedures in the background over a period...
2011-03-02
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Kendra Little
Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings, and I Should Go to Masters Immersion Training (SQL Skills Contest Entry)
This post is about two things:
1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical
You should confirm you are running with the correct...
2011-01-25
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-25
1,467 reads
Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition
Corruption is so ugly it gets a lolworm instead of a lolcat.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start:
This Post...
2011-01-24
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-21
1,885 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-12
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Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-06
2,314 reads
Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs
In A Previous Installment
Re-Ducks
… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post...
2011-01-04
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Why I’m All For 24HOP Showcasing 24 Women Speakers
This is not the HOP you are looking for.
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming 24HOP event planned for March 15...
2010-12-27
955 reads
Filling in Data Potholes with Recursive CTEs
Data: it can break your foot.
Imagine that you are writing a script that looks at data grouped by the minute....
2010-12-23
1,136 reads
Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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Line number in error message doesn't match up with line number in code
Hi everyone I have a 1000 plus line query and I am getting an...
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A Common Split
What happens when I run this code:
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach' SELECT * FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')See possible answers