2014-09-25 (first published: 2010-12-23)
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2014-09-25 (first published: 2010-12-23)
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Lately I spent some time evaluating some monitoring tools for SQL Server and one thing that struck me very negatively...
2014-09-05
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I haven’t been blogging much lately, actually I haven’t been blogging at all in the last 4 months. The reason...
2014-07-22
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Yesterday evening I had the honour and pleasure of recording one of his famous SQL Hangout with my friend Boris Hristov (b|t).
We...
2014-04-18
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Some days ago I was talking with my friend Davide Mauri about the uniquifier that SQL Server adds to clustered...
2014-03-14
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I’m writing this post as a reminder for myself and possibly to help out the poor souls that may suffer...
2014-02-03
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In my last post I showed a query to identify non-unique indexes that should be unique.
You maybe have some other...
2014-01-30
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Understanding the basics of how T-SQL logic works in branching is important to ensure you code works as expected. This article will help you learn how this impacts control of flow language.
2013-06-21 (first published: 2010-12-30)
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Should I be formatting dates on the database side? What tools can I use in SQL Server to format and parse dates? This article helps you decide which one best suits your needs.
2012-03-23
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There is an inprocess setting for linked servers. Have you ever used it? Gianluca Sartori gives a look at what the implications are for this.
2011-06-09
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By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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