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
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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
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You know, sometimes you get a silly idea in your head and you just HAVE to try it out. The...
2017-04-13
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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
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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)
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Wellll .. technically there is no native way to do it. I even went through my notes on identity columns. No...
2017-04-05
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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)
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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
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One of the big benefits of Azure, and in fact any of the cloud offerings I’ve seen, is the ability...
2017-03-29
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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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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
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When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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