#Summit14 Embarcadero Book Signing
The blessings continue as Embarcadero offered to support my new book by hosting a book signing and providing 100 copies...
2014-11-04
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Blog Posts
Cardinality Estimation in SQL Server
Each time you view a seek/scan operator in an execution plan, you may have noticed that there’s a value for...
2014-11-04
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Data Driven Subscription On A Budget, Part 2
Data Driven Subscriptions On A Budget – Part 2
Yes, this is Part 2, you can find Part 1 here to get...
2014-11-04
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Database Ghosts
Recently you may have seen my first article on this topic over at SQL Solutions Group. If not, here is...
2014-11-04 (first published: 2014-10-22)
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Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...
2014-11-04
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PASS Summit 2014 Diary – Day 2
It’s another beautiful day in Seattle. And by beautiful, I mean overcast and threatening rain. Today will be mostly consumed...
2014-11-04
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SQLSaturday Portugal Porto 2014 Recap
Incredibly as it sounds, it took us 2 years of work to get the 18th of October. It took a...
2014-11-04
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5 things to know about Databricks
Databricks is now available in both AWS and Azure so it’s getting a lot of buzz! Let’s discuss 5 things you should know about Databricks before diving in. 1. ...
2014-11-03
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Force only certain values to be unique
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures....
2014-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-22)
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How to copy table structure only from a SQL Query ? Tip #69
Recently , one of my friends shared that some interviewer asked him a question “How to copy table structure only from...
2014-11-03
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
How Do I Choose the Best Bike Transport Service in Gurgaon?
Choosing the best Bike Transport Service in Gurgaon requires careful comparison and user discussion....
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers