I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got!
Or am I?
As I proceed down the path on a consolidation project, I have taken time to pause and ponder...
2010-02-21
663 reads
Jason Brimhall
May I help you?
With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter...
2010-02-18
820 reads
DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-18
1,609 reads
DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-17
1,319 reads
In Vs. Inner Join
This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes. This process came across my...
2010-02-16
871 reads
PayPeriod II
I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...
2010-02-14
793 reads
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-11
974 reads
Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...
2010-02-09
877 reads
Log is Filling Up
Today I ran across Paul Randal’s latest post showing how to find open transactions and such. This is a nice...
2010-02-05
525 reads
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-02
1,699 reads
Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
Forums
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers