DROP IF EXISTS
It’s amazing the things that SQL can do these days. It’s also amazing how many of them I’ve managed to ... Continue reading
2020-03-23
284 reads
Kenneth Fisher
There needs to be a win
A while back a company I worked for had two teams. One was a development team and the other was ... Continue reading
2020-03-19
109 reads
Change the size of the grid results view in SSMS
After my post last month about configuring your tools I’ve been on a make my life easier kick and one ... Continue reading
2020-03-13 (first published: 2020-03-04)
2,686 reads
SQL Homework – March 2020 – Database Configurations.
A little while back we tried configuring the instance. Sometimes though, instance settings are a bit heavy handed, so this ... Continue reading
2020-03-05 (first published: 2020-03-02)
463 reads
Stop #AzureDataStudio from opening a connection screen on startup
When I’m working with a tool I like a clean startup. And by that I mean don’t automatically open anything. ... Continue reading
2020-03-03 (first published: 2020-02-24)
154 reads
Set a variable and update a column at the same time.
The other day I saw a weird option for the UPDATE command in a stack overflow answer. Basically it looked ... Continue reading
2020-03-02 (first published: 2020-02-19)
1,851 reads
DBA, a job, a vital job
DBA, a job, a vital job. T-SQL a language that is fun. Select, a query to get some data. From, ... Continue reading
2020-02-26
21 reads
#PowershellBasics: Run a file and pass it a parameter.
I realized in my last #PowershellBasics post that I was talking about running a file and passing in an optional ... Continue reading
2020-02-25 (first published: 2020-02-17)
545 reads
Configure your tools : T-SQL Tuesday #123
Happy T-SQL Tuesday! Thanks for hosting this month Jess Pomfret (blog|twitter) and great topic. Life Hacks. There is one thing ... Continue reading
2020-02-18 (first published: 2020-02-11)
642 reads
Is it really that hard to be polite, kind and respectful of those around you?
I dislike the term Politically Correct. Not because the original idea of it is a bad one, but it’s been ... Continue reading
2020-02-13
61 reads
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Forums
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Beginner in sql server
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fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers