IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???
SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...
2017-11-08
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DBA Resolutions
It’s said that “promises are made to be broken”. Surely database administrators don’t fall in that category? It’s that time...
2016-12-28
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SQL Server on Linux, first observations.
Is this one of those weird food combinations like honey on pizza or salt and pepper on apples that’s going...
2016-11-22
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“Witch” Statistics?
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three...
2016-09-20
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SQL Server, a true Olympian
Suffering SQL Server Performance Issues?: A story of Olympic sprints and handy SQL Server hints!!!
Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest runner,...
2016-08-18
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SQL 2012 Identity Columns Feature
Recently, a customer mentioned that they seemed to be missing records in tables they don’t delete from. Generally, at this...
2016-02-25
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Freaky statistics feature
SQL Server statistics can make things a bit freaky. You might have read one of my previous articles portraying a...
2015-10-30
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SSMS 2016 – Compare Execution Plans
Microsoft are releasing regular CTP updates for SQL Server 2016. In the very recent release (CTP 2.4), there is a...
2015-10-20 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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No thrills about spills
Statistics, in simplest terms, refer to the distribution of data in a column or index. They are represented in a...
2015-09-21
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Work of art – the intra query parallelism deadlock graphs
Look at some of the graphs produced by the intra query parallelism deadlocks, below.
Bart Duncan explains this “phenomenon” (bug, rather)...
2015-09-10
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Blogs
Understanding Zonal Redundancy in Azure SQL MI
By Arun Sirpal
Do you know what happens when you enable zonal redundancy for your SQL managed...
SQL Server Database Compatibility Levels
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Why You Shouldn’t Overlook This Quiet but Critical SQL Server Setting If you’ve...
The PASS Summit on Tour in the Netherlands
By Steve Jones
The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with the final date the first...
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Question of the Day
The Updated Columns List
I have this table in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE TABLE CustomerLarge (CustomerID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1) CONSTRAINT CustomerLargePK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED , CustomerName VARCHAR(20) , CustomerContactFirstName VARCHAR(40) , CustomerContactLastName VARCHAR(40) , Address VARCHAR(20) , Address2 VARCHAR(20) , City VARCHAR(20) , CountryCode CHAR(3) , Postal VARCHAR(20) ) GOIf I check the columns_updated() function return in a trigger, what is the data returned? See possible answers