Checking Tempdb with dbatools
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-04-20
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Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database at SQL Saturday Jacksonville and 24 Hours of Pass
I’m speaking at two upcoming events that I wanted to share with you! My topic is Monitoring and Tuning Azure...
2018-04-20
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Easy to use WMI commands to query windows system
WMI has been around for a while and it has grown significantly over the years. With Microsoft's focus on powershell,...
2018-04-20
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SQL query to shrink all log files on sql instance
USE master
exec sp_MSforeachdb '
use [?]
print ''?''
print cast(databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') as varchar(200))
if databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') = ''READ_WRITE ''
dbcc shrinkfile(2,1)
'
2018-04-20
328 reads
T-SQL Developer Interview Questions with Answers
What SQL command do you use to pull and filter data from a table ?
SELECT [Column List] FROM [Table Name]...
2018-04-20
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2018-04-20
SQL server database size, location and volume info
For one of my clients, I needed to know and document not only database names, size and locations but also...
2018-04-19
614 reads
Generate SQL script to extract user permissions from a SQL database
When you restore a database, it will also restore all permissions along with it. But what if you are restoring...
2018-04-19
12,496 reads
How to check whether and when sql index statistics were updated last time?
I was working for a client on their very critical and heavily used database. The application was an E-commerce website...
2018-04-19
8,152 reads
How to start SQL Server job using TSQL and wait for it to complete?
If you ever had a need to start a SQL job using sp_start_job stored procedure in msdb then you know...
2018-04-19
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Blogs
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
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Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers