Re-Indexing – The quest of ultimate automation
In this session, Prakash will walk you through design considerations, accompanied with a script demo using PowerShell to generate a...
2014-09-26
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Blog Posts
Wait Statistics #4 LCK_M_xx
In the 4th article of the Wait Statistics series we will dive into LCK_M_xx waits. This is another wait type...
2014-09-26
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Why I’m Only Casting One Vote This Year in the PASS Election
First, a reminder/disclaimer that I am serving on the PASS NomCom this year. The four candidates in the election are...
2014-09-26 (first published: 2014-09-23)
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Convert UK Postcode to Latitude/Longitude/Northing/Easting using SQL CLR
Just a quick post this time. I had a requirement to convert a small number of UK based postcodes to...
2014-09-25
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Convert UK Postcode to Latitude/Longitude/Northing/Easting using SQL CLR
Just a quick post this time. I had a requirement to convert a small number of UK based postcodes to...
2014-09-25
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Four Big Things PASS Could Do Next Year
Here’s my wish list:
Fix the membership problem. One voter, one vote. That’s what we want. The current hack of requiring...
2014-09-25
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Installing SQL Server 2014 Language Reference Help from disk
Some weeks ago I had to wipe my machine and reinstall everything from scratch, SQL Server included.
For some reason that I...
2014-09-25
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Presto Chango
About six months ago, I wrote a post reviewing a book titled The Phoenix Project. In that post, I compared...
2014-09-25
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SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
The SQL Server 2014 cardinality estimator has been improved to increase the quality of SQL Server query...
2014-09-25
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 47
Notes:
We sent out a final you haven’t paid for lunch reminder on Wed, asked for a reply if they were...
2014-09-25
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Blogs
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...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
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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