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Audit Columns

One of the easiest ways to collect information about table activity is to add a series of audit columns to ... Continue reading

2021-10-11 (first published: )

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How old are those stats?

SQL Server maintains a variety of stats about all sort of performance items. Index usage (or missing indexes) Query performance Corrupt pages Disk IO performance Way more than I...

2021-10-11 (first published: )

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BCP on Linux

When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?

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