Rolling back transactions with cursors and local variables.
I’ve been doing some work on a credit card payment system lately. Obviously this needs to be robust and consistent...
2014-04-10
795 reads
Matt
Quick Tip: Migrating a SQL Server Mirroring Witness server.
If you’re like me, you might be thinking “I want some more things to think about when I migrate between...
2014-03-27
644 reads
Quick tip: Querying AD with xp_logininfo
We all have blind spots in our knowledge. We don’t know they are there and when we are thinking through...
2014-03-13
737 reads
Issue with sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats in SQL Server 2012
I’d be struggling to remember a week where I hadn’t run a query against the dmv sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to find unused...
2014-03-10 (first published: 2014-02-27)
3,218 reads
SQL Server configuration files
Problem: You require the ability to perform a repeatable standardised installation of multiple instances of SQL Server or the ability...
2014-02-13
44,668 reads
Conditional Aggregates
The Problem: A legacy table contains amounts and a char column indicating whether the amount is a credit or a...
2014-02-11 (first published: 2014-02-04)
3,081 reads
My Favourite SSMS productivity tips
It’s a well known fact that any sitcom that runs for a certain length of time will release a clip...
2014-01-13
1,675 reads
Apply SP1 to SQL Server 2012 on active/active Windows Server 2012 cluster.
A while ago I blogged my about my approach to service packing a SQL Server 2008R2 active active cluster. Time...
2014-01-08
1,580 reads
Quick tip: Could not load package “xxx” because of error 0xC0014062
I struck this error in one of my SSIS packages, I found lots of tips and suggestions online for the...
2014-01-08 (first published: 2014-01-06)
1,996 reads
Duplicate Statistics
The Setup:
Standard best practise is to have auto create and auto update statistics set for SQL Server databases. But there...
2013-09-03 (first published: 2013-08-28)
3,504 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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