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If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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We’ve been using the wrong data types for all the wrong reasons. DBAs, developers, data architects, etc. have all been...
2015-12-21
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A Clustered Index is not another term for Primary Key, and more thought should be put into the key columns...
2015-12-16 (first published: 2015-12-14)
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Data compression is often misunderstood to cost CPU in exchange for smaller size on disk. Somewhat true, but that simple...
2015-12-08
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I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...
2015-12-08 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Reading the SQL Server Error Log is miserable. It contains very useful information you should address as soon as possible,...
2015-11-16
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I write on my blog and get a couple comments at best. I talk at conferences and a large part of...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...
2015-10-26
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There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Optional parameters in a stored procedure often lead to scans in the execution plan, reading through the entire table, even...
2014-04-15
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Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...
By Steve Jones
I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...
By James Serra
I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Truncate tables where Referential Integrity...
Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...
We have pretty big tables very sensitive to stats with many updates. Our systems...
I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?
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