The problem
There was a need to make changes to a table with an Indexed View. Since Indexed Views must be created with SCHEMABINDING, the View must be dropped and...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Foreword
A picture is worth a thousand words. I use screenshots daily, whether it’s to share results, how-to tutorials, point out mistakes or create memes.
None of the tools I’ve tried...
2022-08-11
55 reads
Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Part Three: The Cure
Foreword
In the first two parts, we have seen why the Scalar functions (UDFs) are a problem for the...
2022-07-29 (first published: 2022-07-24)
576 reads
Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...
2022-07-29 (first published: 2022-07-12)
289 reads
Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Foreword
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how Scalar functions (or UDFs) affect performance.
If you want to follow...
2022-07-18 (first published: 2022-07-02)
572 reads
The problem
In this scenario, you have discovered that one of your Check constraints or Foreign keys is not trusted.
Maybe you’ve detected it with a sp_Blitz, dbachecks or out of...
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-06-24)
379 reads
Foreword
I’m still surprised many people don’t realise how lousy Scalar functions (aka User Defined Functions aka UDFs) are. So because it’s my current focus in work and this Stack...
2022-06-21
46 reads
Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan, and it’s about coding standards. Fortunately, I may forget several basic ones because my team probably eradicated them long ago.
I’ll go with...
2022-06-14
18 reads
SQL Server 2022 CTP is here
It has been announced today (2022-05-24) during the MS Build event. The blog post includes a download link. Unfortunately, the Docker container is...
2022-05-24
46 reads
Foreword
I’ve started to play Lego Video games with my daughter, and since it’s one of her first games, it can be a little frustrating.
Even though there are no high...
2022-05-21
23 reads
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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