Dropping Foreign Keys The Lazy Way
Hello!
So, on another blog a long time ago, I wrote a couple of posts about foreign keys and what step...
2017-04-18
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Richie Lee
When NOLOCK LOCKS!
This is hardly breaking news, but it’s important to know: when using NOLOCK table hints in SQL Server, it can...
2017-03-17
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SQL Server Compression 101
The data compression feature in SQL Server can help reduce the size of the database as well as improve the performance of intensive I/O intensive workloads, especially on data...
2016-10-28
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Turbo LogShip 1.0 Released
Earlier this year, I wrote a long post about log shipping. One of the key points I mentioned was how slow restoring can be for a read only log...
2016-08-30
8 reads
SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space Revisited
I recently had a comment posted to one of my first articles I wrote way back in 2012 concerning adding a column that detailed the used space as a...
2016-02-06
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2015-12-15
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Finding Locks on Tables
Recently I needed to find a stored procedure that was creating a lock on a table and updating the table regularly. So my starting point was the table name,...
2015-04-30
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EXEC sp_executeSQL
Today I am going to talk about the stored proc sp_executesql and the benefits it has over EXEC @SQL. Microsoft actually recommend that you use the sp_executesql stored procedure...
2014-10-27
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How To Split Non-Empty Partitions When A Clustered Columnstore Index Exists on The Table
Another pithily titled blog post, but this one revisits the feature of SQL Server 2014 that piqued my interest the most: Clustered Columnstore Indexes. I’ve been working with Clustered...
2014-08-18
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Microsoft's Lousy Response to a Connect Issue
I’ve been going through the process of upgrading from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and I’ve hit a bug when running snapshots. Any snapshot that was in...
2014-06-18
4 reads
Blogs
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers