Reviewing the SQL Server ERROR log
The SQL Server ERROR log is the best source to understand what’s wrong with your SQL Server instance, think this...
2018-05-10
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DMV To List Foreign Keys With No Index
I was entrusted with a new database for a critical application that was having general performance issue and the CPU...
2018-05-10
1,569 reads
How To Audit Data Changes In SQL Server?
Scenario:
I was at a new client, with their previous and only DBA / DEVELOPER/ MASTER OF ALL of 8 years all...
2018-05-10
10,405 reads
Finding Tabs in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-05-10
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Day 10 Option file
So far we have discussed various mays to configure MySQL, Environmental Variables, Global Variable, Session Variables, Status Variable and Server...
2018-05-10
215 reads
PASS Summit 2018 Pre-con: Digital Storytelling with Power BI
Mitchell Pearson, Brian Knight and myself will be presenting a full day pre-con as PASS Summit on Digital Storytelling with...
2018-05-10
744 reads
Creating SQL Server Containers for versions 2012-2017
I am working on my dbatools and dbachecks presentations for SQL Saturday Finland, SQLDays, SQL Saturday Cork and SQLGrillen I want...
2018-05-10
369 reads
Each session should be able to have its own temp table, but there can be problems.
You should be able to create a #temp in every session. That’s the idea, right? It’s one of the things...
2018-05-10
989 reads
SQL Server Partition Swapping
When working with large amounts of data in ETL jobs it can often can sink a lot of time inserting...
2018-05-10
823 reads
How to deploy data for the lookup tables, small dimensions and other meta-data with your database code
Deployment process equally responsible for deploying both database objects as well as an initial state of the database/applications. In this...
2018-05-10
628 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers