SQLSaturday Vegas Style
We are mere moments from the inaugural SQL Saturday (announced a few short months ago) event in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Can you feel the excitement building? The SQLSat...
2014-04-03
6 reads
Jason Brimhall
New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read...
2014-04-01
928 reads
New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t...
2014-04-01
4 reads
Table Space updated again
Today we have another update for an age old script on this site. You can find the last update to...
2014-03-28
795 reads
Table Space updated again
Today we have another update for an age old script on this site. You can find the last update to the script here. This time we have a bit...
2014-03-28
7 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #051: Bets and Results
The line for this months TSQL Tuesday required wagers be made concerning the risks and bets that have either been...
2014-02-19
1,787 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #051: Bets and Results
The line for this months TSQL Tuesday required wagers be made concerning the risks and bets that have either been made or not made. At close, we saw 17...
2014-02-19
4 reads
Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks Oh My!
Abstract
Managing concurrency is one of the most challenging aspects of working with any enterprise DBMS. There is much confusion out...
2014-02-12
832 reads
Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks Oh My!
Abstract Managing concurrency is one of the most challenging aspects of working with any enterprise DBMS. There is much confusion out there about locking, blocking, and deadlocks. In this...
2014-02-12
8 reads
Risking Health, Life and Family
Since announcing the topic last week for T-SQL Tuesday, I have thought about many different possibilities for my post. All...
2014-02-11
832 reads
Blogs
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Forums
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment Level 3 – Rehearsing Changesets Across Environments
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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Limit the Blast Radius
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Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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