My Toolbox - SSMS
No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-08-03)
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No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-08-03)
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It’s just a couple of days away from SQL Saturday Denver 2024. This Saturday, come join me at the Lowry Convention Center in Aurora for some great talks. We...
2024-08-14
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the first-ever SQL Saturday Syracuse on September 7th, 2024. I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
2024-08-14
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2024-08-13
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This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan, who has hosted 5 times. This latest one is one that is near and dear to my heart as I use source...
2024-08-13
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We talk a lot about data in the data world – imagine that! Sometimes, we talk about data at rest, but when do we all rest? Do we even...
2024-08-12 (first published: 2024-07-30)
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Earlier this year, I embarked on a bit of a project to tidy up the indexes in a sizeable database. This database has over 900 tables, and there are...
2024-08-12 (first published: 2024-07-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mala Mahadevan
(blog) asks how we manage our database-related code.
Where do you keep...
2024-08-12
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As a data professional, you’ll often get a phone call, email, or trouble ticket that says “SQL Server is slow, my query is slow, or things are slow”. This...
2024-08-12
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hiddled – adj. feeling of loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself. I don’t know I am often hiddled. I don’t tend to keep secrets by myself....
2024-08-09
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Hi. I hope someone can give some useful suggestions. My workplace have a suite...
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate, o_orderkey, o_custkey, o_storekey FROMdbo.orders WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;