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Deploy at Low Priority

Learn how to deploy schema changes in an always-online SQL Server environment without a maintenance window. This utility reduces blocking and improves deployment success.
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I attempted to deploy a...

2025-03-19 (first published: )

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Finding nested references

I originally planned this post just as an answer to DBA Stack Overflow question: How can I get the list of tables in all the stored procedure? After preparing...

2024-09-13 (first published: )

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Service Broker Blocking

This post is dedicated to all 10 other DBAs that use Service Broker (you know who you are).
The main reason for this blog post is that I’ve got no...

2024-08-19 (first published: )

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My Toolbox - SSMS

No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...

2024-08-14 (first published: )

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Async stats update causing blocking

I recently encountered an issue where an index rebuild set to wait_at_low_priority ended up blocking an asynchronous statistics update.
This interaction led to a large blocking chain where queries were...

2024-07-03 (first published: )

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Is there a way to determine an Azure Data Factory Trigger's "next run time"?

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The Table Backup

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python

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Question of the Day

The Table Backup

I run this code in SQL Server 2022. What happens?

BACKUP TABLE beercount TO DISK = 'beercount.bak'
 

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