New MSSQLTips Article: Nesting Database Roles in SQL Server
I'm still way behind on my writing for the year, thanks to fighting off stronger than usual migraines and now...
2010-04-07
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Orlando 2010 - The Planning Begins
Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning for Orlando's next SQLSaturday. Andy Warren and I had our...
2010-04-07
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Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll
Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your)...
2010-04-07
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Use a Clustered Index
I stumbled across this clustered index test from Hugo Kornelis recently from a post in the forums. I think I’d...
2010-04-07
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24 Hours of PASS Registration Now Open
Registration for the 24 Hours of PASS is now open. This free, online training event will be held starting 12:00...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS v2.0
The kids over at the Professional Association of SQL Server Users have done it again. They’re hosting 24 Hours of...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2
Well, we finally got the ok to start talking about the second 24 Hours of PASS event, called 24 Hours...
2010-04-06
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A DMV a Day – Day 6
The DMV for Day 6 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-06
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Big Iron on Windows 2008 R2, Earning its Keep!
This screenshot goes in the category of “geek porn”… It shows an IA64 system with 256 logical processors and 512GB...
2010-04-06
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Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace
Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace If there was one thing I wish everyone who works with SQL Server would...
2010-04-06
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Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
What's new in R 4.6
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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