2017-09-27
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Puzzle – Prime Numbers
My goal here is to have something fun (and hopefully educational/thinky) (and yes, I did just make up the word...
2017-09-27
462 reads
Saving and restoring session options settings
There are a fair number of options settings. ANSI_NULLS, ARITHABORT, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, etc. Each session has its own set of configurations....
2017-09-25
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Uniquifier is a rather unique word isn’t it?
tl;dr; The uniquifier is used to make a non-unique key in a clustered index unique.
Uniquifier is a rather funny name,...
2017-09-22 (first published: 2017-09-18)
1,657 reads
Do what I say, not what I do
I told you not to use NOLOCK even though I use it sometimes.I told you not to shrink databases, even...
2017-09-20
437 reads
Help! My query is too fast!
Said no one ever. Well, maybe. I have had occasions where I needed a brief pause in the middle of...
2017-09-20 (first published: 2017-09-14)
3,252 reads
Turn on/off Azure VMs with Powershell
T-SQL Tuesday has rolled up on us yet again. This month it’s Rob Sewell’s (b/t) turn to host and picked...
2017-09-12
450 reads
Create an empty table from a SELECT statement but without the IDENTITY.
A while back I did a post about creating an empty table using a SELECT statement. Basically doing something like...
2017-09-11 (first published: 2017-08-28)
3,090 reads
There EXISTS a place where SELECT 1/0 doesn’t return an error.
Kendra Little (b/t) reminded me of this fun little trick (with fairly important ramifications) in her latest quiz on logical...
2017-09-07
667 reads
Changing the version of an SSIS package.
Of all of the annoying parts of SSIS, the major version sensitivity has to be the most annoying. Let’s say...
2017-09-06 (first published: 2017-08-23)
3,498 reads
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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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