SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
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Blog Posts
In-Memory OLTP & Deadlocking – my SQLBits sessions
After speaking at the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen earlier this week, my next stop was at the SQLBits conference in...
2015-03-07
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DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”
Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Friday Followup For March 6, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-03-06
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Fun-fun-fun in the London sun (and Cardiff, and Exeter!)
We’re in London right now for SQLBits, which has been ABSOLUTELY LOVELY so far. If you happen to’ve seen our...
2015-03-06
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SQLRally and SQLBits Slides and Demos
It’s been a great a busy week.
On Wednesday, I presented my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” at SQLRally...
2015-03-06
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T-SQL :- How to Search String in all Stored Procedures across All User Defined Databases
There are many different ways to accomplish this tasks.
Download Link https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/T-SQL-How-to-Search-String-a1704fc6
The below examples uses undocumented sp’s to loop through all the...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Identifying Blocking via Extended Events
There are a number of ways that you can identify blocking that is occurring in your SQL instance. You can...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 3: Writing an Abstract
So you’ve come up with a great idea for a session and now you have to translate that idea into...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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Data compression
This post examines the compression of a database named Bankware (BW) at a client site. The database size was 300+ GB. The tests for BW were done on the sk-bankware server...
2015-03-04
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers