June 2011 – PASSMN Meeting Announcement
PASSMN has announced it’s June meeting. A little of the SQL and a little of the non-SQL. Get a brush...
2011-06-07
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Blog Posts
On the exorcism of Ghost Records
There was a question earlier on one of the SQL forums as to whether or not Ghost Cleanup overwrote the...
2011-06-07
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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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Pragmatic Tools: DTSxChange (Or DTS Must Die!)
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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T-SQL Enhancement: Sequence
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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T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server Denali (2011)
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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A Welcome Break
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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Column order can matter
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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Great white paper: Microsoft EDW Architecture, Guidance and Deployment Best Practices
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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Improved partition loading
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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Blogs
Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?
While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...
Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder
By James Serra
(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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SQL Server Audit Failures
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SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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