Drupal is a Senior SQL Server consultant with over 20 years of experience in engineering innovative SQL Server solutions for high growth organizations. A truly SQL Server specialist and IT generalist, Drupal is a certified MCDBA, Oracle OCP-DBA and IBM WebSphere Administrator. He is also ITIL V3 certified at the Foundation and Intermediate levels as well as PMP.

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DMV - Active queries sorted by CPU usage

select
           s.session_id,

           db_name(s.database_id) DB,

           s.login_time,

           s.host_name,

           s.program_name,

           s.login_name,

           s.cpu_time,

           s.memory_usage,

           s.total_scheduled_time,

           s.total_elapsed_time,

           s.endpoint_id,

           s.last_request_start_time,

           s.last_request_end_time,

           s.reads,

           s.writes,

           s.logical_reads,

           s.is_user_process,

           s.row_count,

           s.open_transaction_count,

           t.text as [command]

from sys.dm_exec_sessions s

inner join sys.dm_exec_connections c...

2019-04-25

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Question of the Day

An Unusual Identity

What values are returned when I run this code?

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
     id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
    somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
 id
 FROM dbo.IdentityTest2

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