Lessons Learned from a Poor-performing VIEW
It is a “common knowledge” among SQL practitioners that VIEWs don’t perform well. Recently during an application’s development I put...
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)
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DwainCSQL
Stupid T-SQL Tricks – Part 1: Logarithms
Not just for math geeks, logarithms and their inverse functions (the exponentials) can have useful and often unexpected capabilities in...
2014-05-01
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Using the T-SQL MERGE Statement
In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft added a new SQL query type: the MERGE statement. This flexible query provides the ability...
2014-04-13
5,682 reads
The One Million Row T-SQL Test Harness
So far in our blogs, we have talked a bit about performance, but today we’re going to show you a...
2014-04-17 (first published: 2014-04-08)
4,660 reads
Manipulating Dates and Times in T-SQL
In SQL 2008, Microsoft introduced some new date and time data types to augment the options available in prior versions....
2014-04-08 (first published: 2014-04-04)
7,109 reads
Make it Work, Make it Fast, Make it Pretty
When I first heard this, it struck me as being a remarkably concise wisdom applicable to virtually any programming task....
2014-04-01
1,188 reads
Calendar Tables in T-SQL
In an earlier blog, we covered a type of auxiliary table (the Tally Table) that can provide a lot of...
2014-03-30
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Tally Tables in T-SQL
The Tally (or Numbers) table is one of the most useful constructs in intermediate-level SQL. Have you ever written a...
2014-03-27
56,494 reads
Getting an INDEX SEEK to Speed up LIKE “%string%” Searches
In today’s blog I will attempt to challenge the popularly held notion that LIKE “%string%” wildcard searches must be slow...
2014-03-26
20,689 reads
Common Table Expressions in SQL
In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the Common Table Expression (CTE). CTEs share similarities with VIEWS and derived tables, but...
2014-03-23
1,603 reads
Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers