Commenting TSQL Scripts
If you have ever searched for “commenting in TSQL” scripts, I am sure that you’ve found hundreds or maybe even...
2010-07-29
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Blog Posts
Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
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Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1
Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the...
2010-07-29
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Indexes and their Effect on Query Performance
Indexes play a huge role in the performance of a query. Without indexes, you very simple query to get the...
2010-07-29
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Interviewed by Andy Leonard
Last year Brent Ozar interviewed all the candidates for the PASS Board of Directors. I think it went over pretty...
2010-07-29
1,910 reads
Introduction to Parallel Data Warehousing
What are we talking about?
Recently Microsoft released a new version of SQL Server 2008 R2 called Parallel Data Warehouse Edition....
2010-07-29
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Limiting Table Access for Reporting Part 1
End users may have a need to do some form of reporting of data from source systems. Opening up the...
2010-07-29
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Limiting Table Access for Reporting Part 2
Blog Title: Limiting Table Access for Reporting Part 2
In the first blog post of this series, I showed you how...
2010-07-29
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Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
In SQL Server, transaction log provides an ability to recover a database to a point...
2010-07-29
2,385 reads
Pesky Protected Mode
How many of you keep falling for this one…You open up Report Manager for a user that you know you...
2010-07-29
1,475 reads
Blogs
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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