TSQL Tuesday #62: Invitation to Healthy SQL – Why Page Verify?
I don’t think anyone’s ever been happy to get a support call at 11pm on a Saturday night. However this...
2015-01-15 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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Kenneth Fisher
Discussing Security with Boris Hristov on SQLHangout #29
Over the years I’ve done a number of posts on various aspects of security. In fact the first thing I...
2015-01-12
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – January 2014 – Restore the Master
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-01-08 (first published: 2015-01-05)
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Finding the reason for the error “Subquery returned more than 1 value”
First this type of error is because a subquery returned more than one row when it wasn’t allowed to. In...
2015-01-07
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Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And...
2014-12-31 (first published: 2014-12-29)
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-12-30
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Do you want to build an Audit?
So I’ve written my second article for SQL Shack. This time instead of an overview of auditing options in sql...
2014-12-29
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‘Twas 4:45 Friday
‘Twas 4:45 Friday, and all through the office
not a creature was stirring, not even the bosses.
The code was checked in,...
2014-12-25 (first published: 2014-12-16)
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Playing with the log – VLF order while growing the log
The log file is one of those parts of SQL Server I find fascinating. For instance it is composed of...
2014-12-23 (first published: 2014-12-17)
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Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page
This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought...
2014-12-15
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned? See possible answers