What are Statistics in SQL Server?
Statistics are vitally important in allowing SQL Server to find the most efficient way to execute your queries. In this post we learn more about them, what they are...
2023-06-21
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Blog Posts
What is Always Encrypted and how does it work?
Always Encrypted was a new encryption feature added to SQL Server with the 2016 version of the product. Initially it was just available in enterprise edition, but from SQL...
2023-06-21 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Indexes and Statistics with Always Encrypted
In this short post we look at the ability to be able to have (or not) indexes on columns encrypted using Always Encrypted.
2023-06-20
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List Top Tables in SQL Server Database by Size
There are countless queries you can find on internet to get list of tables, size of database, tables, indexes etc... Here is a one that I have used for...
2023-06-20
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T-SQL Tuesday 163: Best piece of career advice
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan?
Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...
2023-06-20 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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Flyway with Multiple Folders
A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-05-31)
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Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips
Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 06-12-2023 Cooking, Father's Day, & the Shrinking Household
Hello Dear Reader! This past week was a busy one. As we've started to settle into the new house we are transitioning from eating out or having meals delivered,...
2023-06-19
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Under Promise and Overdeliver
If you under promise and overdeliver then you will always have happy clients.
2023-06-19
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Blogs
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Prepping for Certification, Part 2 of ?
By Brian Kelley
The advantage of understanding the make-up of the exam: I can tailor my efforts...
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers