Six top SQL Server 2012 management tools you should know about
Management tools play a vital role in enterprise database management. This is because the well-integrated tools extend the administrator’s capabilities,...
2013-03-26
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Management tools play a vital role in enterprise database management. This is because the well-integrated tools extend the administrator’s capabilities,...
2013-03-26
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From time to time, I see the following question posted on various SQL Server forums by different users asking why...
2013-03-26
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Checkout the fifth part of my XML support and SQL Server article series here.
In this article, I discussed the basic...
2013-03-26
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Today, I’ve received an email from friend asking that that is there any way to find out the progress of...
2013-03-19
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This dynamic management function (DMF) returns the detailed information about low level activities on indexes such as input/output (I/O) operations,...
2013-03-19
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Today, we experienced performance issues with few databases that are hosted on one of our most critical production SQL Server....
2013-03-13
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Today, I received a call from friend asking how he can find out which database object belongs to which filegroup.
Well...
2013-03-03
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Today, I am very happy because my first article (SQL Server Encryption) was published in SQL Server Pro. In this...
2013-02-23
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Virtualization is a hot trend in the computing world, offering businesses substantial cost and performance benefits that include server consolidation,...
2013-02-23
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Checkout the fourth part of my XML support and SQL Server article series here.
In this part, I talked about XML...
2013-02-23
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By Steve Jones
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By Chris Yates
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no...
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
Just saw the "Azure Extension for SQL Server" Does anyone has experience with it?...
I've noticed several instances of what looks like a recursive insert with the format:...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Cleaning Up the Cloud
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers