Page Split Mini-Series - Part II - Page Latch Contention
Last time, in Part
I of my page-split mini-series, we began speaking about page
splits, defining what they are, how they occur,...
2013-07-26
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Blog Posts
Reblog: July 19 to July 25
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-07-26
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Rebuilding server level collation setting
Scenario You have just completed setting up a new development database server for a new project. After that, everyone in...
2013-07-26 (first published: 2013-07-19)
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SQL Server Login Errors
Hello Dear Reader. Quick blog today. If you are working in the SQL Server world eventually you will try to...
2013-07-26
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The SQLAndy Rules for Storing Credit Card Numbers
I’ll try to write more about these over the next couple months, but I wanted to write down a quick...
2013-07-26
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Webcast Presentation Materials: 5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events
If you are looking for a presentation that brings together bacon, unicorns, and lightsabers, then you should have seen my...
2013-07-26
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70-457 Reviewer #07, Resolving Concurrency Problems in SQL Server 2012
This topic is part of the lessons covered in Optimization and Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 which is 14% of overall...
2013-07-25
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Blog Images and PNG Compression
I’m not terribly good at putting at least one image in every post. The images I do use are either...
2013-07-25
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Crash when inserting to a FileTable with a parallel plan
Whilst doing some ad-hoc work on some data on a 2012 SP1 instance I came across an issue with the...
2013-07-25
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First Time Speaker
So this week was another first for me, I finally bit the bullet and gave a talk at the Leeds...
2013-07-25
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Blogs
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...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
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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