Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch
I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE...
2017-01-03
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Blog Posts
Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about...
2017-01-03
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Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about...
2017-01-03
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Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about that, there were months where I barely managed to...
2017-01-03
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Checking DBCC CHECKDB
I hope you run consistency checks on your databases, if you are not currently doing this you probably will want to....
2017-01-03
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Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates
First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
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Epic Life Quests
It is easy to get caught up in the daily details of life and not take the time to reflect on longer term goals and accomplishments.
Inspired by Brent Ozar...
2017-01-03
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Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice
Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...
2017-01-03
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My Interview published on Microsoft Technet Blog
Wish you a Happy New Year to all the readers and technical enthusiasts!!!
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/2017/01/02/interview-with-a-sql-server-expert-and-wiki-ninja-prashanth-jayaram/
My interview is published on the Microsoft Technet blog...
2017-01-03
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ReadyRoll Development
This is the sixth part in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post will illustrate the power of ReadyRoll when...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers