2012-06-06
3,086 reads
Lynn Pettis
- Interests: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Swords and Sorcery, Computers, Soccer (coach and ref)
Deleting Large Number of Records
Often someone will try to perform a delete on a large number of records and run into a number of problems. Slow performance, log growth, and more. Lynn Pettis shows us how to better handle this situation in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
2011-02-18 (first published: 2009-09-15)
54,541 reads
Entering the Dark Side
If any of you follow me on SQLServerCentral.com, then you know I recently started a new job. Well, after two...
2010-08-26
1,694 reads
Sins of a Recursive CTE?
On June 1, 2010, Steve Gray had an article, Sins of SQL: The Time Table, published on sqlservercentral.com. I’m not...
2010-06-03
2,588 reads
2010-04-30
3,435 reads
Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
1,561 reads
The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table
Building a tally table is a common T-SQL problem that many new developers struggle with. Lynn Pettis brings us an article that shows how to use CTEs to accomplish this.
2009-09-22
11,168 reads
My next republished article is now available
Okay, my second article which was originally published on sswug.org, is now available on SQLServerCentral.com. This article compares two methods...
2009-09-21
1,257 reads
Republished Article
Well, the first of two articles I originally had published on sswug.org will be published on ssc tomorrow. I'm looking...
2009-09-14
1,503 reads
Welcome Home !!
I realize I have been relatively quiet for a while, but summer is actually a fairly busy time for us...
2009-08-22
1,215 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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