How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?
The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005...
2015-04-08
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HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT
Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...
2015-04-08
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HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT
Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...
2015-04-08
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HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT
Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...
2015-04-08
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HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT
Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are but then you realise that your project is like...
2015-04-08
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Journey to Being a Consultant – Webinar Today
Today at 11am Central time I will be presenting a new session entitled “Journey to Being a Consultant” for the...
2015-04-08
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Make sure you back up the Service Master Key
I’m by no means an expert in SQL Server encryption. What I do know however, is that the Service Master...
2015-04-08
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Trust No One Implicitly
At the Charlotte BI Group meeting last night, one of the questions I was asked after I gave my talk...
2015-04-08
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What is a data lake?
A “data lake” is a storage repository, usually in Hadoop, that holds a vast amount of raw data in its...
2015-04-08
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A New Use Case for SQL Prompt – Shrinking Code
I thought this would work, but I wasn’t sure. I saw some code the other day like this:
DECLARE@charASCHAR(1);
SET@char=NULL;
SELECTISNULL(@char, 0);
SELECTCOALESCE(@char, 0);
SET@char='E';
SELECTISNULL(@char,...
2015-04-07
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
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Be Wary of Data
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Locking Hierarchies
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;