Waiting Tasks Reveal Pain Points
Waiting tasks quickly shows you where to look for the bottlenecks. This is only one of the many times that I...
2018-02-14 (first published: 2018-02-06)
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Waiting tasks quickly shows you where to look for the bottlenecks. This is only one of the many times that I...
2018-02-14 (first published: 2018-02-06)
2,909 reads
This weekend I caught up with Drew Furgiuele at SQL Saturday Cleveland and learned how to get involved with the...
2018-02-06
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
This weekend I caught up with Drew Furgiuele at SQL Saturday Cleveland and learned how to get involved with the open-source dbatools PowerShell module.
If...
2018-02-06
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If you are using SSMS V17.4 as I am
You may encounter a weird error. This can be repeated as follows:
Open...
2018-02-06
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In December I participated in T-SQL Tuesday #97 and wrote a post about 2018 goals. I promptly spent two weeks...
2018-02-05
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Wait statistics are a vital part of understanding what is causing your system to run slowly. Capturing them can be...
2018-02-14 (first published: 2018-02-05)
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This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
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The Importance of Log Files in SQL Server
On the SQL server every day we perform many transactions and as we...
2018-02-05
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I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career. I’ve somehow managed to meet and become friends with highly talented people who...
2018-02-05
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I need a new social media profile picture.
That’s one of the most important (non-technical) conclusions I drew from my week at PASS Summit 2017. It seemed like everywhere I...
2018-02-05
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
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