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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Marty
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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
1,689 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
2,926 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
1,486 reads
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
3,002 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
721 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
17,934 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
20,273 reads
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
730 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers