Adding a Database with Polybase External Tables to Always On Availability Group
Learn how to ensure your PolyBase objects are accessible from all nodes in an Availability Group.
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TempDB growth due to version store on AlwaysOn secondary server
On a not-so-busy day, I received an alert saying tempdb has grown to 90 percent of the drive size and there is only 10 percent space left on the drive. The server is a SQL Server 2014 instance and hosts AlwaysOn secondary databases.
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SELECT INTO vs INSERT INTO on Columnstore
This article compares SELECT INTO and INSERT INTO under different scenarios, and the best approach preferred.
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Mail Fails with SQLCMD Error
I had a SQL Server job that kept failing with sqlcmd error and this describes how I resolved it.
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How does a View work on a Table with a Clustered Columnstore Index ?
This article is about how a view works when it is created on a table with clustered columnstore index on it.
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Clustered Columnstore Index Gives "Unable to find index entry" Error
The Clustered columnstore index generates "unable to find index entry" error and a memory dump after few DMLs on the table
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Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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