Thank you!
I won’t be able to make it to the PASS Summit this year but I still consider myself part of...
2014-03-19
678 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Start with stupid
True story: I worked in a computer lab many years ago and one day this guy (a grad student) checked...
2014-03-17
576 reads
:CONNECT in SSMS
Those people who are familiar with SQLCMD will recognize this command. It is used to connect to an instance from...
2014-03-13
1,440 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #52: Keep your head down!
It is T-SQL Tuesday again and this month we are taking the road less traveled. Michael J Swart (b/t) has...
2014-03-11
1,291 reads
Impersonating a server level permission
Warnings up front, this has some serious security implications. The method I’m going to use minimizes that somewhat but it’s...
2014-03-07 (first published: 2014-02-26)
2,556 reads
Characters you should never ever use in an object or schema name!
You can put pretty much any character you want into an object or schema name by enclosing the name in...
2014-03-05
728 reads
Using SQLFiddle
SQL Fiddle is a free website that you can use to demonstrate and save a query example in any one...
2014-03-03
3,056 reads
What’s the difference between a temp table and a table variable?
I recently saw an answer to this question on dba.stackexchange.com written by Martin Smith. It was probably one of the...
2014-02-24
1,099 reads
Finally added a (t) to my (b)
I feel like an old man opening a computer for the first time but I’ve finally signed up on twitter....
2014-02-20
506 reads
DBA Myths: An index on a bit column will never be used.
Not true. (Or I guess probably wouldn’t be posting about it would I?)
Probably the first thing I should point out...
2014-02-19 (first published: 2014-02-17)
2,619 reads
Blogs
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Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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