Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,082 reads
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,082 reads
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a...
2016-02-03
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Recently I got my hands on a copy of Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting, written by SQL Server MVP Joost...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
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SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People...
2016-01-28
864 reads
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the final quarter of 2015:
Integrated Logging with the Integration Services Package...
2016-01-22
501 reads
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2016-01-20 (first published: 2016-01-12)
1,387 reads
It’s the time of the year again: the obligatory “how was the past year” blog post, combined with “what do...
2015-12-29
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Just a small blog post about how I used sp_BlitzIndex for the first and how awesome that was. sp_BlitzIndex is one...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-07)
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Installing and configuring SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re...
2015-12-01 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is getting quite the overhaul in SQL Server 2016. Lot’s of things are changing:
new look...
2015-11-24 (first published: 2015-11-20)
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers