New blogger: Jamie Wick
New SQL blogger
Jamie at the 45th Parallel (South) – New Zealand
This post is just a quick shout-out. My friend and co-leader...
2018-06-15
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New SQL blogger
Jamie at the 45th Parallel (South) – New Zealand
This post is just a quick shout-out. My friend and co-leader...
2018-06-15
334 reads
Killing Time – or removing the time element from a datetime
Over the course of time, we all collect scripts and routines...
2018-06-07
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One of the things that you will no doubt end up experiencing as a DBA is that you will see...
2018-05-16
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SSMS (and other SQL Server utilities) utilize a batch separator to, well, separate batches of T-SQL statements. Before we go...
2018-04-18
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Database Code Smells
I was recently reviewing a newly created T-SQL stored procedure. This procedure was verifying temporary table existence with...
2018-04-11
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This post talks about having primary replica jobs. That is, jobs that will only run on the primary replica of...
2018-04-02
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There are several different options available for working with tabs and spaces in SSMS. In fact, there are enough that...
2018-03-29 (first published: 2018-03-21)
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Do you ever find yourself working on a query and realize that you need just a bit more real estate...
2018-02-28
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As you already know, SQL Server runs as a service. And services require a service account to run under. While...
2018-03-02 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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Back to the SQL Server Basics with Wayne
Connecting to a SQL Server instance is one of the first things that...
2018-02-19 (first published: 2018-02-07)
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One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
By Kevin3NF
Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
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I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers