SQL Server Phantom Reads
With Halloween around the corner what better topic to discuss than phantom reads. A phantom read occurs when rows have...
2017-11-08 (first published: 2017-10-26)
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Blog Posts
What Are These Backup Settings All About?
I ran across a client the other day that had these Backup and Recovery options set like the picture below...
2017-11-08
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Why do you want to use SQL Service Broker
Why use SQL Service Broker It enables you to execute SQL Statements faster and do the real work later. SQL Server...
2017-11-08
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4 Common Misconceptions About SQL Injection Attacks
Photo by Jaanus Jagomägi on UnsplashInterested in learning more about SQL injection attacks, including how to prevent them? Attend my online webcast on...
2017-11-07
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4 Common Misconceptions About SQL Injection Attacks
Photo by Jaanus Jagomägi on Unsplash
Interested in learning more about SQL injection attacks, including how to prevent them? Attend my online webcast on Tuesday November 14, 2017 at 1PM Eastern at the...
2017-11-07
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU6 released
Better late than never: The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), released an appliance update...
2017-11-07
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dbatools with SQL on Docker and running SQL queries
I had a question from my good friend Andrew Pruski dbafromthecold on twitter or SQL Container Man as I call...
2017-11-07
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Extended Events and Profiler: XE Profiler
There’s a war on in the SQL Server world. On the one side is Profiler (although, really, everyone uses Trace...
2017-11-07
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Improving instead-of-insert cardinality estimates for inserted and deleted pseudotables in SQL 2014+
Tricky triggers
In my last entry I noted that the performance of "instead-of" triggers can be tricky.
One of the reasons for...
2017-11-07
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PASS Summit 2017
Hello all!
This past week was PASS Summit 2017, a super crazy/awesome week! So many great things happened this week and...
2017-11-07
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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