Use TOP instead of SET ROWCOUNT
Both TOP and SET ROWCOUNT are both valid methods of limiting the result sets from a query. They are however...
2013-10-10 (first published: 2013-10-07)
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Blog Posts
Checking Backup/Restore progress
Every now and then we all need to perform backup or restore, for large databases when we need to perform...
2013-10-09
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How to Limit IO Requests with SQL Server 2014 Resource Governor
Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 in order to allow us have better control over our system resource...
2013-10-09
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Leveraging LinkedIn to Contribute to the DBA Community & Attract Opportunities with Internationally-Oriented Organisations
LinkedIn has matured over the past decade and I can
sincerely say it is well worth the time setting up your...
2013-10-09
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Next Week, in or out of Charlotte (#sqlpass #Summit13 #SQLHighTea #TooManyHashtags)
Welcome to Tuesday. We hope you enjoy your stay! Edit: We have been informed that today is actually Wednesday. We...
2013-10-09
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Speaker of the Month, October 2013
This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...
2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)
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Unexpected result with the File System Task
Recently I ran across a forum thread where someone encountered an unexpected result when creating a directory using the File...
2013-10-09
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Unexpected result with the File System Task
Recently I ran across a forum thread where someone encountered an unexpected result when creating a directory using the File...
2013-10-09
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Azure Account and Spending Limits
If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...
2013-10-08
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Benchmark SQL Server Wait Statistics
One of the secret weapons in performance tuning with SQL Server is understanding wait statistics. Every time a process (spid)...
2013-10-08
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Forums
Liability for AI Errors
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
Pro SQL Server Internals
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers