SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2014
I made some small improvements to a few of the queries this month. I plan to add several more SQL...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-04-18)
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for August 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Testing with Temporary Stored Procedures
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A while back I learned that it's possible to create temporary stored procedures in SQL Server.
I never put that knowledge into practice however because I...
2019-04-02
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Testing with Temporary Stored Procedures
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A while back I learned that it's possible to create temporary stored procedures in SQL Server.
I never put that knowledge into practice however because I...
2019-04-02
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Using Temporal Tables for Slowly Changing Dimensions
One of my favorite recent additions to SQL Server is the ability to use temporal tables to retain change history. As I wrote in an earlier post on this...
2019-04-02
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Vote on Connect Items for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and 2012 Service Packs
As we get closer to the end of mainstream support for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Customizing Statistics Histogram in SQL Server 2019
The use of statistics in SQL Server is tightly embedded in the query optimizer and query processor. The creation and maintenance of statistics is usually handled by the SQL...
2019-04-01
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Distributed Replay Utility – The Search for the Cure
The Complaint(s) When I was young, I went to nursing school. In school, we were taught that in order to come up with a proper diagnosis, the doctor first...
2019-04-01
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Indexed Views – Performance Panacea or Plight
An indexed view is a view where the result set from the query (the view definition) becomes materialized in lieu of the virtual table result set of a standard (non-indexed) view. Many...
2019-04-01
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Jobs That Beat The Caring Out Of You
I was inspired by Jen McCown’s story here. Read that first. It’s WAY better than mine. This is not an April Fools post. Fools are involved, but none were...
2019-04-01
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Blogs
PlanTrace: Stop Reading Redshift EXPLAIN Plans. Start Seeing Them
PlanTrace: Stop Reading Redshift EXPLAIN Plans. Start Seeing Them Introducing PlanTrace — a free, browser-based...
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
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SPAM Issues May 2026
We suffered a SPAM attack from May 1-6, which unfortunately corresponded with time off...
SQL Password enforcing
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SQL Password enforcing
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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