TSQL Tuesday #134 – Taking a break
This month’s TSQL Tuesday invite is from James McGillivray – he asks people to write about what they were/are doing to take a break during this crisis ridden time...
2021-01-12
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Blog Posts
Career Goals for 2021
I’m a couple weeks late, but not nearly as late as 2020. In any case, I’m going to break these down as I did last year, but hopefully with...
2021-01-11
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Daily Coping 11 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...
2021-01-11
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Identify the (Top 20) most expensive queries across your SQL Server using Query Store
Script to identify the most expensive queries on your database server using the Query Store DMVs. This allows you to look at data from a specific time frame, as...
2021-01-11 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-11 (first published: 2021-01-05)
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Annual Corporate Report Filing for SQLOrlando
As a Florida corporation we have to file an annual report. Sounds complicated, but for us it’s a five minute task. Here’s the Trello card for the work I...
2021-01-10
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Annual Corporate Report Filing for SQLOrlando
As a Florida corporation we have to file an annual report. Sounds complicated, but for us it’s a five minute task. Here’s the Trello card for the work I...
2021-01-10
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Filing the Annual Tax Return for SQLOrlando
Similar to my earlier post on filing the annual report, once a year we have to file a tax return with the IRS. Basically if the revenue is less...
2021-01-10
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Filing the Annual Tax Return for SQLOrlando
Similar to my earlier post on filing the annual report, once a year we have to file a tax return with the IRS. Basically if the revenue is less...
2021-01-10
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Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS
SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-09
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
By Kevin3NF
How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
Forums
statistics callection intervel in query store ?
Statistics Collection Interval: Defines the level of granularity for the collected runtime statistic, expressed...
Rounding Off issue in SQL Server
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM-CU17) (KB5048038) - 16.0.4175.1 (X64) Microsoft Corporation...
how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb
i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...
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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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