Daily Coping 14 Jan 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-01-14
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Blog Posts
Farewell, Gareth Swanepoel
Not easy to say, Gareth passed away a few days ago. We’d both gotten busy and with Covid added in, we had not caught up in a while. Now,...
2021-01-14
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Farewell, Gareth Swanepoel
Not easy to say, Gareth passed away a few days ago. We’d both gotten busy and with Covid added in, we had not caught up in a while. Now,...
2021-01-14
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Query to list all the procedures and triggers not having SET NOCOUNT ON defined
It is a tiny query in size but can play a crucial role to avoid overhead, caused due to missing SET NOCOUNT ON definition in the stored procedures and...
2021-01-14
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SQLSaturday Doesn’t Have to Be a Platform
When we built the first SQLSaturday it was about 2 pages of HTML. No login, no tools, just get it done. Worked ok. Didn’t work so well for the...
2021-01-14
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T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Row-wise result
As I promised in my previous post T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Columnar result – SQL Server Carpenter, here is another version of the query to...
2021-01-14 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Using Amazon FSx for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances – What You Need to Know!
Intro If you are considering deploying your own Microsoft SQL Server instances in AWS EC2 you have some decisions to make regarding the resiliency of the solution. Sure, AWS...
2021-01-14 (first published: 2021-01-08)
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Daily Coping 13 Jan 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-01-13
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EightKB is coming!
The next EightKB is coming on January 27th, kicking off at 2pm UTC. Once again we have 5 mind melting sessions on 5 in-depth SQL Server internals topics, from...
2021-01-13 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Power BI: Data Model Optimization
Saving the Day from Delay Part 1 Optimizing your data model can be a daunting task. If you read the intro to this series, you know one of the...
2021-01-13
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Blogs
Accelerating AI with Confidence: Why Microsoft Purview is Key to Responsible Innovation
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
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statistics callection intervel in query store ?
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Rounding Off issue in SQL Server
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how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb
i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...
Question of the Day
SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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