What is the “cost” in Cost Threshold for Parallelism?
tl;dr; While at one point the cost of a query was an estimated time to run in seconds, today it’s...
2017-04-17
508 reads
Kenneth Fisher
No space queries
You know, sometimes you get a silly idea in your head and you just HAVE to try it out. The...
2017-04-13
387 reads
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Koen Verbeeck (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is The times they are a-changing. In other...
2017-04-11
481 reads
Creating a list of random numbers
I was working on a blog post this weekend that required a list of random numbers. Now, this isn’t exactly...
2017-04-05 (first published: 2017-03-22)
2,281 reads
How do I change the increment of an identity column?
Wellll .. technically there is no native way to do it. I even went through my notes on identity columns. No...
2017-04-05
486 reads
Compressed backup errors and TF 3042
Compressing your backups has very few downsides. It’s usually faster (the additional time for compression is less than the time...
2017-04-03 (first published: 2017-03-16)
1,636 reads
Hiding tables in SSMS Object Explorer
Extended Properties
Sometimes you find out the strangest things about SQL Server. I’ve written about extended properties before but had no...
2017-04-03
504 reads
Increasing and decreasing the performance level of your Azure SQL Database
One of the big benefits of Azure, and in fact any of the cloud offerings I’ve seen, is the ability...
2017-03-29
726 reads
Limits vs Goals
It’s that time again. Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (b/t) is the host this month and has a fun topic for us....
2017-03-27 (first published: 2017-03-14)
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V6.0 Finally!
It’s been almost 3 years since I updated these SPs! I can’t believe so much time has gone by! Well,...
2017-03-27
506 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
Understanding Fabric MCP
By James Serra
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...
AWS RDS Aurora - our first approach
When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many...
Forums
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
How do I explain that SQL Server should not be used as a code repository?
This week my BI Developer colleague proudly showed me a new Power BI report...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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