Does rebuilding my clustered index also rebuild my non-clustered indexes?
I’ve been working with SQL Server for many years now, and up until recently, I assumed that rebuilding any clustered...
2017-09-20
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Born SQL with Randolph West
A trillion and one
Joe Obbish wrote an epic post a few weeks ago about loading a trillion rows into a non-partitioned table in...
2017-09-13
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Connect Windows 10 client to a VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2
I got a strange request in a Slack channel the other day. A colleague in South Africa, who uses Windows,...
2017-09-06
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What you need to know about memory limits on SQL Server
Last week, I posted this statement on Twitter, along with a screen capture of the official Microsoft documentation: Reminder: Max...
2017-08-30
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #635 in Vancouver this weekend
This coming weekend, at SQLSaturday #635 in Vancouver BC, I will be presenting a brand new talk about Temporal Tables,...
2017-08-23
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Microsoft presents: MySQL and PostgreSQL?
For the longest time, MySQL has been the recommended database platform for blogs and other websites. It’s free. It’s available...
2017-08-16
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This is how I recovered from a catastrophic failure
I was fresh off the boat* from South Africa, working in a small computer store in an equally small town...
2017-08-09
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Locks, Blocks, and Isolation Levels
Last week we looked at ACID compliance. This week we dive a little deeper into the Isolation portion, and what...
2017-08-02
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Acids and Databases: A look at ACID and transactions
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL use transactions to allow concurrent users to...
2017-07-26
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What is a good Disaster Recovery Plan?
During a Q&A session I hosted at our local Calgary SQL Server User Group last month, one of the attendees...
2017-07-19
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Blogs
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
Deleting data in large table
I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...