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
668 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)
1,800 reads
2017-10-25
376 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
1,122 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)
1,849 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
428 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
951 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
339 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
431 reads
Blogs
Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
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Removing TDE
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