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
T-SQL Tuesday #191: Invitation–Your Favorite String Parsing
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. My apologies. I had a...
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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