Applied SQL: Find and replace using regular expressions in SSMS
Regular expressions are searches on steroids, the wildcats of the wildcard world*. Even if you never ever write CLR, regex...
2014-01-10
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Blog Posts
Cleveland rocks in February!
Heading to SQLSaturday #241
It’s a brand new year, so start it off right. Cleveland is hosting its third SQLSaturday on...
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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Friday Followup For January 10, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-01-10
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How To Campaign For the PASS Board
Let’s say you’ve decided to run, good! What do you do next? I’m not going to give you a blueprint...
2014-01-10
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Interview Questions – what to ask the company interviewing you
Previously, I posted a list of interview questions that I ask job candidates. This post is about the questions that...
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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Reblog: January 3 to January 9
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-01-10
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SSRS – Identify a scheduled SSRS Report
Initiating subscription is a tedious task in SQL Server Reporting Services. Each subscription in Reporting Services is setup as a...
2014-01-10
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The DBA That Practices Database Restores
We are often told that we need to practice our restores. And it might not be obvious, but the reason...
2014-01-10
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The SQLSaturday Wiki–Revisited
I saw a discussion on Twitter yesterday where Kendal Van Dyke referenced the SQLSaturday wiki as a resource, I thought...
2014-01-10
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T-SQL – Monitoring DiskSpace of Multiple Servers
This post talks about step by step approach to capture the disk space using T-SQL. This is a request from...
2014-01-10
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers