The Project Graveyard
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #107 prompt by Jeff Mlakar. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-10-18 (first published: 2018-10-09)
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Blog Posts
Fix SQL Server with one click
Tempting headline, isn’t it? It might even seem like clickbait, but that’s not the intention. The SQL Server default configuration...
2018-10-17
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Generate a random number of children for each parent
I was asked an interesting question the other day.
Is it possible to get a different random number of rows...
2018-10-17 (first published: 2018-10-03)
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How to Start Speaking
At the last few events I attended, I’ve gotten into conversations on how to begin as a speaker. So I...
2018-10-17
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Pagination pattern or how to fetch a large dataset for a web report.
In this post we will discuss how to fetch data from a large dataset for web applications using pagination technique....
2018-10-17
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SQL Server Data Collection and Management Data Warehouse
We all have the need to collect system and performance information regarding our SQL Servers. Some of us use third-party...
2018-10-17 (first published: 2018-10-03)
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2018-10-17
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What is the Object Explorer Details tab good for?
For a long time there I would see the Object Explorer Details tab show up when I opened SSMS (SQL...
2018-10-17
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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
At Microsoft Ignite, one of the announcements was for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which was made available in public preview October 1st, 2018 in 12 different Azure regions. SQL Database Hyperscale is...
2018-10-16
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
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While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can't get around adding some business formatting logic to...
2018-10-16
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Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers