SQL Server Training in 2013–SQL Server Virtualisation and Consolidation
As we approach a new year many of you will be looking at your SQL Server Training needs for 2013....
2012-12-19
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Find Nth highest salary using RANKING functions
Suppose you want to find nth highest salary from a table,Then
you can use DENSE_RANK() function.Here i show some example that...
2012-12-19
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SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial
Recently we decided to create a series of videos for our SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial which is part of our...
2012-12-26 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2012)
Here is the December 2012 version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements...
2012-12-18
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Index Analysis: The Re-Return
A couple years back, I wrote a few blog posts about an indexing script that I use with clients from...
2012-12-25 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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Managing Schemas And Source Control For Databases
Visual Studio has a project type called “Database Project” that is used to manage a database schema and allows for...
2012-12-18
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SQL Saturday #143 - Washington, DC
Last week, I attended my very first SQL Saturday event in Washington, DC. Although I don't live anywhere near Washington,...
2012-12-18
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On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have been hurt in the making of this post! This...
2012-12-18
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On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have...
2012-12-24 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 5
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 11.0.2395. I count 28 fixes in the public...
2012-12-18
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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