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
788 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
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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
733 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)
3,210 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
41,731 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)
3,066 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
1,662 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
1,570 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)
1,987 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)
3,473 reads
Blogs
Small Data SF 2024
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I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
A New Word: Moledro
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Snowflake + Azure blob
By Arun Sirpal
Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a...
Forums
Need to group the same valued ID fields to run an aggregate average over them
I have data that contains poll results, with the poll_id consistuting a single row...
SSIS Question
Hi everyone. I am re-writing a portion of my SSIS logic. My SSIS package...
How are statistics stored?
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How are statistics stored?
How are the statistics for query optimization stored in SQL Server?
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