Haunted SQL: The ghost of Management Studio
Have you ever had a query change performance unexpectedly? Intellisense all of a sudden stops working, or gives inconsistent results?...
2017-10-30
675 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Permissions required for developing with Temporal Tables
Temporal tables are one of those new (2016+) cool features that recently came across my desk. Basically, a temporal table...
2017-10-26 (first published: 2017-10-16)
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2017-10-25
388 reads
Schema only backup or schema only DB copy
Every now and again you have a database where you don’t necessarily need the data. It can easily be re-loaded...
2017-10-25
1,156 reads
Updateable CTEs
CTEs are cool things. You can essentially create one or more in-line view(s) within your query. One thing that isn’t...
2017-10-18
1,970 reads
Small identity columns
We frequently talk about dealing with outgrowing INT identity columns. What we don’t talk about all that often is small...
2017-10-17 (first published: 2017-10-09)
1,850 reads
sys.objects VS helper functions (OBJECT_ID, OBJECT_NAME, etc)
I’ve you’ve done much work with the system views (DMVs for example) then you’ve had to translate an object_id into...
2017-10-11
431 reads
The Alpha and the Omega. The BEGIN and the END.
The BEGIN/END block is a fairly standard thing if you’ve ever done any coding, but it never hurts to do...
2017-10-04
954 reads
Haunted SQL
I decided that for Halloween this year it would be fun to tell SQL ghost stories. When I tweeted about...
2017-10-03
340 reads
SQL Homework – October 2017 – Sample/Test Database(s)
Last month your homework was to set up your own lab. Now it’s time to put a sample database or...
2017-10-02
434 reads
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Database Mail Configuration
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Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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