TSQL Tuesday #50 – Automation – Verifying the Backup Chain
I was recently just letting my mind wander. As it’s prone to do, all sorts of things just entered into...
2014-01-14
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I was recently just letting my mind wander. As it’s prone to do, all sorts of things just entered into...
2014-01-14
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When I talk to people about switching from being a salaried employee to an independent consultant (see my presentation How to...
2014-01-14
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In just a couple months… on March 1… I’m going to jump into a lake in Minnesota. Now it’s cold...
2014-01-14
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I missed last month and I was a bit sad, but I was traveling the week before and speaking, and...
2014-01-14
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In my developer life, my motto was ‘Automate all the things’ and since transitioning to a DBA role, my motto...
2014-01-14
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I know it’s only January, but if you’re at all considering being a candidate you need to get going now....
2014-01-14
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Sometimes being a DBA really stinks. You try to follow best practices in everything you do. You’re not shrinking databases...
2014-01-14
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(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-14
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Announcing a flash sale today from 10a-12p Central time for my upcoming SQL Saturday Nashvillepreconference training session ‘Virtualization for SQL...
2014-01-14
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Here’s a quick post detailing a PowerShell script that can be used to change the password for a SQL Server Login. Regular readers know that I practice the philosophy...
2014-01-14
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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