By Design
Just because something works, is it prudent to implement a solution knowing there is a chance this design flaw will be stricken from future revs of SQL Server? It depends.
2017-04-10
65 reads
Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
1,493 reads
Bogging Down in the Minutia of Minutes
Rodney Landrum gets lost in the fourth dimension, while coding the infinite possible combinations of SQL Server dates and times.
2016-02-01
72 reads
2015-09-14
128 reads
Pier to Pier Replication on Frozen Lake Erie
In a guest post, Rodney Landrum ponders the gaps in his DBA experience at the edge of Lake Erie.
2015-03-02
107 reads
DBA of the World
Conference travel enhances our minds with more than just SQL. It exposes us to new cultures, people and possibilities.
2015-01-05
104 reads
I am no Asimov
Rodney Landrum on finding the inspiration you need, somehow and from somewhere, to get yourself out of a tight corner.
2014-09-29
119 reads
2014-04-14
147 reads
Redundant Redundancy
When DBAs too often find themselves trading sleep for Megabytes, it's time for a different approach to detection and alerting of disk space problems. So argues Rodney Landrum.
2014-01-20
108 reads
DEF CON SQL
An impromptu hacking session, in response to an inexplicably-changed password, reminds Rodney Landrum of some valuable lessons for every DBA.
2013-08-05
105 reads
Blogs
Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric specialization from scratch
The post Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric...
FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter...
Explicitly Defining Values in an IN Clause VS Putting Them into a Temp Table and Use a Semi-Join
This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues...
Forums
CPU Performance Advice in SQL Server 2005
I am having problems with CPU performance on SQL Server 2005. CPU spikes frequently...
CPU Performance Advice in SQL Server 2005
I am having problems with CPU performance on SQL Server 2005. CPU spikes frequently...
Duplicate Documents
Hi Experts, I am trying to find duplicate documents stored in our Filestream database....
Question of the Day
Subqueries II
What is wrong (if anything) with this code?
SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh WHERE customerid IN (SELECT soh.CustomerID FROM Sales.Customer AS c WHERE soh.CurrencyRateID = 1 ORDER BY c.ModifiedDate)See possible answers