Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Refactoring out Write-Host
Someone posted a note to me on Twitter that noted that Write-Host is not recommended for your scripts. I checked...
2014-06-05
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Blog Posts
Natively Compiled Procedures and Execution Plans
The combination of in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures in SQL Server 2014 makes for some seriously screaming fast performance....
2014-06-05
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Who has the DAC open?
The other day I started seeing the following error in my SQL log.
Error: 17810, Severity: 20, State: 2.
Could not connect...
2014-06-05 (first published: 2014-05-28)
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15 years of experience with Identity columns
An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...
2014-06-04
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A Sherlockian Question Of the Day & Why I’m Writing Questions
If you haven’t noticed by now I’ve been writing quite a few questions of the day for SQLServerCentral. It started,...
2014-06-04
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How Does Disabling an Index Affect the Index Usage DMV Counters
A question was posted to #SQLHelp on Twitter asking, if disabling an Index would clear the index usage counters stored in the...
2014-06-04 (first published: 2014-05-28)
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Miscellaneous Notes on the PASS NomCom and General Election
Interesting day yesterday. A spirited discussion on Twitter, a challenging post from candidate Mark Broadbent, and a couple good threads...
2014-06-04
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Upcoming SQL Saturdays & Precons
This coming weekend is the SQL Saturday #307 in Iowa City, Iowa. I am really looking forward to attending this event...
2014-06-04
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Using PIVOT function without a CTE
There are some cases when you need to use a PIVOT function in SQL but you cannot use a CTE....
2014-06-04
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Access Granted or Not? Question of the Day
Access Granted or Not? is my latest Question Of The Day and I think it represents a pretty good troubleshooting...
2014-06-03
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
degree of parallelism
Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers