Planning Your Upgrade Well
Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...
2011-06-07
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Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...
2011-06-07
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Ah DTS packages…they suck. Seriously, it’s 2011. It’s been over a decade and we still have SQL 2000 and DTS...
2011-06-07
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Many applications need sequentially incremental number as unique/primary key for records. SQL Server 2008 supports identity columns as the primary...
2011-06-07
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In the next couple of weeks we’ll do a series of blog posts with some of the T-SQL enhancements that...
2011-06-07
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I’m not working, though I have checked some email and kept an eye on a few things while I’m in...
2011-06-06
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Ordinarily, column order of a SQL statement does not matter.
Select a,b,c
from table
will produce the same execution plan as Select c,b,a
from...
2011-06-06
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A fantastic white paper just released: Microsoft EDW Architecture, Guidance and Deployment Best Practices.
It’s a must read if you are...
2011-06-06
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We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a daily feeding of around 9 million. It is split into 10, roughly equal, partitions. I...
2011-06-06
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We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a
daily feeding of around 9 million. It is split into 10, roughly equal,
partitions. I...
2011-06-06
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We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a daily feeding of around 9 million....
2011-06-06
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Adding new column with DEFAULT
I've got a web application for my side business. I've added a SQL Server...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers