Best Practices: Defining Explicit Length for Varchar/Nvarchar
SA0080 : Do not use VARCHAR or NVARCHAR data types without specifying length. Level: Warning
When using varchar/nvarchar it should be explicitly...
2017-06-07
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SA0080 : Do not use VARCHAR or NVARCHAR data types without specifying length. Level: Warning
When using varchar/nvarchar it should be explicitly...
2017-06-07
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Over the course of several years, I have given many technical and non-technical presentations. It is fun for me to...
2017-06-07
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I had previously blogged about the Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL Server 2016, a joint effort between Microsoft and...
2017-06-07
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One of the changes that’s been brought into the database engine in SQL Server 2017 is the ability to disable...
2017-06-07 (first published: 2017-05-24)
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My First UPDATE Statement Last week we covered how to put information into a table using an INSERT statement. This...
2017-06-07
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Back to some core SQL this week and one of my favourite features, extended events.
Introduced in SQL Server 2008...
2017-06-07
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Recently I had to copy data from our AS400 to a SQL Server database. Normally I would whip up my...
2017-06-07
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Difference between const, readlonly and static readonly? const: const variable value is set as constant value at compile time. it can not...
2017-06-07
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I happy to be doing a PreCon at SQL Saturday Chattanooga on Friday June 23rd. A lot has changed in the SQL PowerShell world in the last 15 months...
2017-06-07
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I happy to be doing a PreCon at SQL Saturday Chattanooga on Friday June 23rd.
A lot has changed in the...
2017-06-07
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers