The CHOOSE keyword
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I love coming across features of SQL that I’ve not used before and one happened today – the CHOOSE statement – introduced...
2014-02-17
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TSQL-Tuesday#050 – Automation
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Well, it’s the first TSQL-Tuesday of 2014 and one of my New Years resolutions for 2014 is to contribute to...
2014-01-14
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Do you clean up after yourself?
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I remember a fair few years ago when I was relativly new to TSQL creating a stored procedure that...
2014-01-13
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Installed SQL SERVER 2012? maybe you’d like to re-set your shortcuts!
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Just a quick post on a seemingly trivial matter that others may find useful.
The post was prompted by the Simple-Talk...
2013-12-30
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SQL Saturday #252, Christchurch New Zealand
TweetSQL Saturday #252 Christchurch, New Zealand
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Well, these are exciting times for the Christchurch SQL SERVER User Group.
After a period of...
2013-07-28
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Dedicated Admin Connections (DAC) and SQL SERVER 2012 SSMS
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As part of any SQL SERVER install that I do, I turn on Remote admin connections (using sp_configure) and open...
2013-04-07
5,184 reads
Multiple ALTER DATABASE SET options
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Did you know that you can actually combine multiple SET operations into a single ALTER DATABASE statement.
It’s true, you can!
Mostly...
2013-04-06
4,300 reads
SSPI error and Incorrect timing.
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Recently, quite out of the blue I started seeing this error when I tried to log into my SQL instance...
2013-03-28
1,660 reads
The first record on data page.
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I had a recent conversation about data pages. There was some debate about the location of the first record on...
2012-08-06
1,197 reads
2012 DDL for Roles
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I’m extremely pleased that Microsoft are continuing their commitment to provide full DDL to preform TSQL operations that have previously been preformed using stored...
2012-04-22
1,329 reads
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Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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