Nested views causing query performance woes....
Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...
2010-04-05
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Blog Posts
nHibernate, First Look at TSQL
I’ve blogged in the past about the nHibernate project that has been going on at my company for the last...
2010-04-05
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Product Review: Fences
Fences is a free utility for the Windows desktop that lets you drag shortcuts into boxes you define (fences) and...
2010-04-05
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A DMV a Day – Day 4
The DMV for Day 4 is sys.dm_os_sys_memory, which is described by BOL as:
Returns memory information from the operating system. SQL...
2010-04-04
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Differential Backups
My last few posts have been backup orientated, I have a post on Full Backup, a post on Transaction Log...
2010-04-04
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Parsing SQL for Table Names
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (VSDB) ships with a .NET class for parsing T-SQL. I’ve previously blogged about...
2010-04-04
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SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
3 weeks of intense training, intense studying, 3 written tests, and one 6 hour lab exam....
2010-04-04
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
15 Presentation 24 Demo13 Hands-on Labs35 Videos
The training kit...
2010-04-04
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A DMV a Day – Day 3
The DMV for Day 3 is sys.dm_os_sys_info, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a miscellaneous set of useful information about...
2010-04-03
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A T-SQL Holiday Message
Totally pointless, but fun. Run it to decode the message.
DECLARE @Message varchar(20)
SET @Message = '????????????'
DECLARE @Decode Table(
DSeq tinyint,
DKey smallint
)
INSERT INTO...
2010-04-03
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers