A second week at SQLskills – performance tuning
G’day,
Back in February, I was lucky enough to attend a week of training on SQL internals from the people at...
2011-08-14
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Select from a table with no rows returned.
G’day,
I recently ran into a nice feature that I had never encountered before.
Sometimes, when developing or administrating an unfamiliar table...
2011-07-04
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Meme Monday for June – there are no dumb questions
G’day,
Here’s my input into this months Meme Monday – there are no dumb questions.
It seems (at least to me), that – occasionally...
2011-06-06
1,694 reads
Free SQL Exam cram sessions from Microsoft.
G’day,
I’m a big fan of maintaining and updating your technical skills, but sometimes its difficult to measure your ability at...
2011-05-31
2,933 reads
A curious case of a missing configuration group.
G’day,
I recently received a brand new windows 7 virtual machine for my every day work use and one of the first things...
2011-05-12
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Catalog view or compatibility view?
G’day,
The recommended way to access SQL SERVER metadata is through the catalog views.
The challenge is to be able to distinguish...
2011-05-08
3,003 reads
Certifications – and a survey.
G’day,
There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications.
Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them...
2011-05-05
726 reads
How do you create or update stored procedures.
G’day,
Running object creation scripts into other environments is a big part of most DBA’s work – especially when a new system...
2011-05-04
17,941 reads
Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
Hi,
Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...
2011-05-02
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
G’day,
Apparently “Meme Monday” was started by Thomas Larock (Blog | Twitter) , as a way for getting people writing. I haven’t been...
2011-05-02
737 reads
Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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