Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis
Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....
2012-10-23
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Patrick
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Which SQL Instance is Killing Your CPU?
You have 5 instances running. How do you know which one is killing your CPU?
As you can see from Windows...
2012-10-16
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Grant Execute Permission on All Stored Procedures
Right out of the box, SQL Server makes it pretty easy to grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE to all...
2012-10-10
13,080 reads
How to Make SQL Server Listen on Multiple Ports
Have you ever needed an instance of SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP port numbers but didn't know how...
2012-10-05
1,180 reads
Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it "SQLdm") is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I...
2012-09-28
2,736 reads
Welcome to Everday SQL
My name is Patrick Keisler and I have been a Microsoft SQL Server DBA for over 12 years. During that...
2012-09-22
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Blogs
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...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
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High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
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Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
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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