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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By Steve Jones
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
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If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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