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She's ready for the future. Are you?
In preparing for the SQLPeople event, I thought about the role, motivation, and techniques...
2011-04-15
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LittleKendra
Andy Leonard’s great idea: SQLPeople events
Not too long ago, Andy Leonard (blog|twitter) dreamed up the idea to create the SQLPeople community. The community is forming...
2011-04-13
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To Do: Win Great SQL Training and a Cruise
Wondering what to do when you get a break from work email today?
Make your opening move in a fun contest.
What’s...
2011-03-31
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I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS: The Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide
Careful what you say about cats, lady.
You know what’s crazy?
A comprehensive, technical, well thought-out, and ENJOYABLE document. One written with...
2011-03-30
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Dynamic Management Quickie: Exploring SQL Server’s system views and functions as you work
There’s a lot of dynamic management and system objects to keep track of in SQL Server.
We all sometimes have the...
2011-03-22
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How To: Automate Continuous SQLServer Activity with Stored Procedures and Powershell Jobs
The Goal
It’s often useful to be able to run a bunch of stored procedures in the background over a period...
2011-03-02
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Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings, and I Should Go to Masters Immersion Training (SQL Skills Contest Entry)
This post is about two things:
1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical
You should confirm you are running with the correct...
2011-01-25
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Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition
Corruption is so ugly it gets a lolworm instead of a lolcat.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start:
This Post...
2011-01-24
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-21
1,913 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-06
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT
Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers