2020 Year In Review
TL;DR – It was great and not great I think we can all pretty much agree that in some regards 2020 was horrible, globally. So lets move on… Good...
2021-01-01
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Dallas DBAs
Top 3 Upgrade & Migration Mistakes
This is a guest post by another friend of Dallas DBAs – Brendan Mason (L|T) Upgrading and migrating databases can be a daunting exercise if it’s not something you...
2020-12-22
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Virtual Log Files
Today’s post is a guest article from a friend of Dallas DBAs, writer, and fantastic DBA Jules Behrens (B|L) One common performance issue that is not well known that...
2020-12-07 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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Renaming SQL Server Databases
Video walkthrough of renaming or “flipping” databases to minimize down time during a refresh. Most commonly when moving a copy from prod to dev. My Pluralsight courses for new...
2020-10-12
75 reads
The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 4]
My Favorite and Recommended Training Resources As I’ve been in intense, focused SQL Server training for the last year, I thought it would be a great time to share...
2020-07-31 (first published: 2020-07-21)
675 reads
The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 3]
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community. It is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t) and this month’s edition is hosted by Kerry Tyler...
2020-07-22 (first published: 2020-07-14)
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SQL Server Express Size Limit
My Pluralsight course for new SQL Server DBAs (Needs to upgrade to a bigger bowl) Common scenario: Company is using SQL Server Express to save on licensing costs...
2020-07-02
250 reads
The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 1]
Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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TIL: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase
We have a double feature for today’s dbatools blog post, as these two commands go hand-in-hand. Todays commands: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase Detach-DbaDatabase and Attach-DbaDatabase can be used as aliases....
2020-07-01 (first published: 2020-06-24)
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Data Bits – Episode 9 – David Klee
SQL Server, Virtualization and Storage expert David Klee (b|t)stops by to tell stories ?? Fun stuff: “English and Gibberish” “Learn it like you’re going to teach it” “Kevin Kline...
2020-06-16
104 reads
Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers