SQL Express and the Curse of the Perfmon Counters
On a dark and spooky night in the land of SQL Server make-believe, a young warrior was asked to slay...
2012-02-05
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On a dark and spooky night in the land of SQL Server make-believe, a young warrior was asked to slay...
2012-02-05
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I have been given the opportunity to deliver a few webcasts about some of the new features of SQL Server...
2012-02-03
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A few years ago, I wrote a script that was published on SQLServerCentral.com about how to verify the last successful...
2012-02-03
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As a DBA, I enjoy knowing that the better job I do, the less likely it is that any of...
2012-01-17
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I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
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So, how do you recover from the Holidays? Hot Cocoa by the fire? Relaxing evening with your spouse watching an...
2011-12-26
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One task that often needs to be done when migrating a database to production for the first time is to...
2011-12-20
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One challenge I’ve had recently is getting a list of servers imported in to a CMS (Central Management Server). While...
2011-12-13
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I was reading through the SQL Server 2005 SP3 release notes yesterday (sadly, it was enjoyable) and clicked through to...
2008-12-19
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Over the past several months, I’ve started diving into the world of wait stats on my instances. An ever present...
2008-12-03
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By Steve Jones
SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend,...
Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common...
By Steve Jones
lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits...
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers