2014-09-25 (first published: 2010-12-23)
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Gianluca Sartori
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Database Free Space Monitoring – The right way
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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Announcing ExtendedTSQLCollector
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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Hangout #18 with Boris Hristov
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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Uniquifiers: all rows or the duplicate keys only?
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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Verdasys Digital Guardian and SQL Server
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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Non-unique indexes that COULD be unique
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 T-SQL Expression Short-Circuiting
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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Dealing with custom date formats in T-SQL
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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Setting up linked servers with an out-of-process OLEDB provider
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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