When I get stumped I ….
I work with a reasonably large team of DBAs. There are 9 of us and we support not only 70+...
2012-10-02
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Kenneth Fisher
DBMail on a cluster
I’ve always found clusters a pain in the neck. For my latest pain I just spent the last 2 days...
2012-09-26
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Using a TVP instead of Dynamic SQL to pass a list into a SP
A couple of days ago I read Steve Jones’ blog on creating a user defined table type. This reminded me...
2012-09-25
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Funny results from OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS
I recently turned on OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS for the first time on one of my servers. When I...
2012-09-18
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2012-09-13
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EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
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2012-09-07
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sp_helptext
My manager has been quietly laughing under his breath at me for years. Usually because I much prefer queries and...
2012-09-02
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At Startup SSMS setting
I came across this handy dandy little setting earlier this year. It was well hidden from me, by which I...
2012-08-27
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keyword DEFAULT
In 12 years of working with SQL it was only last year that I came across the keyword DEFAULT and...
2012-08-20
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Blogs
A Broken Copilot Query
By Steve Jones
I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into...
SQL Server Alerts
By Kevin3NF
Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until...
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
By Steve Jones
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Building a RESTful API with FastAPI and PostgreSQL
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a RESTful API with...
The Journey to PostgreSQL (or anything)
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Journey to PostgreSQL (or...
Question of the Day
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