Quick charts in SQL Server Operations Studio
Sample chart for quick insightsSQL Server Operations Studio will be a new tool for managing SQL Server, Azure SQL Database,...
2018-05-14
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Blog Posts
Reaching the Refactoring Redoubt with #SQLPrompt
I enjoy themes, and when I ran across the SQL Prompt Treasure Island, I had to take a few minutes...
2018-05-14
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SQL Server Building On Calculations With APPLY
I find myself using Apply more and more in my queries, aside from the usual reasons I’ve been finding I...
2018-05-14
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Day 13 MySQL Performance_Schema
performace_schema is a dynamic database created when you restart the mysql, all the data from performance_schema database will be clear....
2018-05-13
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Find Query with Implicit Conversion in the Plan Cache
In my previous blog, I discussed about “Which are the queries using a particular index or table?“. Today’s post, I am...
2018-05-13
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SQL Server Management Studio Intermittently Hangs Browsing a Database
If you’re seeing SSMS hang/lock timeouts when expanding nodes in the object explorer for a database it’s almost definitely caused...
2018-05-13
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Day 12 INFORMATION_SCHEMA database
Yesterday we discuss about mysql system database, today we will see “INFORMATION_SCHEMA” database, this we cannot call as database because...
2018-05-12
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SQL Server Corruption - Bring Order Out Of Chaos
I wanted to document a couple of important tasks you should be doing as part of your SQL Server maintenance/backup...
2018-05-12
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Connect to Power BI Report Server with SSMS
Sometimes you want to connect to a report server instance using Management Studio, for example to create a new security...
2018-05-11 (first published: 2018-05-02)
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Day 11 MySQL System Database
Previous days we discuss Variables and configurations which are quite important for DBA to know. As stated earlier there are...
2018-05-11
232 reads
Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers