100th post
This is my 100th blog post here at LessthanDot!
(I’m not lying, check for yourself)
I started blogging at the end of...
2015-07-10
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Blog Posts
Automatic database restore
Often times database administrators were asked to restore production database backup to UAT or development environment, sometimes it will needed...
2015-07-10
1,004 reads
But I Don’t Have a Test Server…
I frequently see statements on forums along the lines of “I don’t have a test server, so I’m going to...
2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-06)
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Creating Clustered Index on a Table Variable column in MS SQL Server
If you need to create an index in order to improve performance of the queries running against table variable (@temptable)...
2015-07-10
4,555 reads
Microsoft Azure Data Catalog
Just announced is the Microsoft Azure Data Catalog, which is an enterprise metadata catalog / portal for the self-service discovery of...
2015-07-10
1,028 reads
PASS Summit Precon – The Complete Primer to SQL Server Virtualization
I am very pleased to announce that Argenis Fernandez and I will be presenting a new precon training session at...
2015-07-10
552 reads
Reblog: What’s the deal with Excel and SSIS?
SQLKover update: When I read this old blog post of mine, all I can think about is: Power Query to...
2015-07-10
1,339 reads
Script to find complete months between two given dates
Below script will help in finding the complete months within the 2 given dates. In the below script we takes below dates as exampleStartdate =2015-07-05Enddate =2016-01-06
/**********************Script Start**************************/IF (object_id('tempdb..#month') is...
2015-07-10
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Script to find complete months between two given dates
Below script will help in finding the complete months within the 2 given dates. In the below script we takes...
2015-07-10
828 reads
Script to find the complete weeks within two given dates
Sometimes we need to find out the complete weeks within two given dates. Below script will help in finding the complete weeks within 2 given dates. In this script,...
2015-07-10
20 reads
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers