DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD
I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do...
2014-12-11
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Kenneth Fisher
TSQL Tuesday #61: Giving Back, you gain more than you give.
Almost four months ago I posted my goals for the next year in my two year anniversary post. I pretty...
2014-12-09
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Using a date or int column as the clustered index.
The other day I was answering a question about clustered indexes and it lead indirectly to a twitter conversation on...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-01)
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INSERT INTO SELECT vs SELECT INTO
INSERT INTO SELECT and SELECT INTO may be very similar commands but they have some important differences. Every now and...
2014-12-03
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You don’t really need ORDER BY do you?
You see dozens of blog posts and articles about how the order of a result set is not guaranteed without...
2014-12-01 (first published: 2014-11-19)
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Who’s on call
Kenneth Fisher:
I really enjoyed writing this post last year and honestly still enjoy reading it myself. And since tomorrow is...
2014-11-26
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Putting sp_ at the beginning of your stored procedure.
Every now and again you see articles and posts about putting sp_ at the beginning of a stored procedure. So...
2014-11-24
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Using T-SQL to populate a Central Management Server
We have been using a CMS (Central Management Server) at my office for the last few years. Even beyond the...
2014-11-24 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Adding a column to the primary key.
Every now and again you realize that the primary key for a table does not uniquely describe a row. Not...
2014-11-13
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TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does have?
What have I learned recently? Well as it happens I learned something rather interesting recently and was actually trying to...
2014-11-11
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
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AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers