Let’s Talk About Joins
T-SQL Tuesday #37 This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the month. It is hosted this month by Sebastian Meine (@sqlity)....
2012-12-11
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Jason Brimhall
Backup History
This is a quick rewrite of the script I just posted a few days ago. The script had a few...
2012-12-04 (first published: 2012-11-30)
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Backup History
This is a quick rewrite of the script I just posted a few days ago. The script had a few flaws if trying to run it on a SQL...
2012-11-30
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that...
2012-11-28
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012
Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey)
Neil Hambly (neil_hambly)
Bob Hovious
Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild)
Ed Watson...
2012-11-21
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012 Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey) Neil Hambly (neil_hambly) Bob Hovious Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild) Ed Watson (SQLGator) ...
2012-11-21
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Last Known Good CheckDB
Diligent DBAs like to check their databases for a little thing called corruption. Some of those DBAs are masterful at keeping records and logging that the database was checked...
2012-11-20
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Last Known Good CheckDB
Diligent DBAs like to check their databases for a little thing called corruption. Some of those DBAs are masterful at...
2012-11-20
2,751 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #36 SQL Community
Community – What is it?
Community is something that is improperly defined with words alone. Community is best defined through first person...
2012-11-13
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers