Solving a slow running query issue with UNION
That’s right! I will solve a performance issue by adding a UNION into the query. Interested? Read on!
I recently encountered...
2015-03-09 (first published: 2015-02-25)
8,812 reads
Koen Verbeeck
T-SQL Tuesday #63: How do you manage security
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Kenneth Fisher (blog | twitter) and its subject is about security.
Security is one of...
2015-02-18 (first published: 2015-02-10)
6,683 reads
Author of the Year at MSSQLTips.com
I have the pleasure and privilege to announce that I was awarded with the “Author of the Year” award at...
2015-01-13
515 reads
The mysterious permission issue
As you might have realized, this is not the title of an Agatha Christie book, but rather about some nasty...
2015-01-09
769 reads
Better late than never…
Just like last year, I’m a bit late with the obligatory “how was last year and what is this year...
2015-01-08
626 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q4
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the last quarter of 2014.
INTENSE SCHOOL
MCSE Prep: Overview of T-SQL Windowing...
2015-01-07
524 reads
Formatting Durations in SSAS: Caveat
I recently published an article on MSSQLTips.com titled Format Durations in SQL Server Analysis Services. For those who haven’t read...
2014-12-22
708 reads
Nominated for the 2014 Tribal Awards
Just like last year, SQLServerCentral.com and Simple Talk are hosting the Tribal Awards. In their words:
The Tribal Awards, co-hosted by Simple-Talk and...
2014-12-18
853 reads
PASS BI VC recording is available now
The recording of the webinar I did for the PASS BI virtual chapter is live!
(Quick reminder: it was the same...
2014-12-05
729 reads
Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions) – The Movie!
I was recently contacted by the fine gents of Webucator, an online training services provider. In order to promote their...
2014-11-27
1,068 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...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
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