Maintenance Plan Owner
We all inherit things from time to time through our profession. Sometimes we inherit some good things, sometimes we inherit...
2012-07-02 (first published: 2012-06-25)
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Don’t believe everything you read: Reconfigure flushes the plan cache
I’ve been doing a fair bit of research and investigation into the behavior of the plan cache recently. So I was concerned...
2012-06-28 (first published: 2012-06-25)
3,819 reads
Join me at the PASS Summit
It seems just yesterday that we were all in Seattle together, getting a crash course in what’s new and exciting...
2012-06-25
434 reads
Join me at the PASS Summit
It seems just yesterday that we were all in Seattle together, getting a crash course in what’s new and exciting...
2012-06-25
647 reads
SQL Server : Parameter Sniffing
Two days back one of my colleque came to me and started complaining about the performance of an Stored Procedure....
2012-06-29 (first published: 2012-06-25)
9,021 reads
Super SQLSaturday #158 Summer Spectacular Event Update & Speaker Schedule!
When we first announced the return of SQLSaturday to NYC (after 2 long years), we knew we'd get a decent...
2012-06-27 (first published: 2012-06-24)
2,277 reads
Using SQL Server 2012 FileTables
SQL Server 2012 allows you to store file/directories in a special table called FileTable that builds on top of SQL...
2012-06-24
13,808 reads
Generating Surrogate Keys With SSIS
A surrogate key is an auto generated value, usually integer, in the dimension table. It is made the primary key...
2012-06-28 (first published: 2012-06-24)
7,787 reads
Excellent SSIS 2012 Upgrade Video
This presentation gives an excellent overview of the process of upgrading SQL Server 2008 SSIS packages to work with SQL...
2012-06-24
1,318 reads
Rebuild index with "Alter Index Rebuild" or "DBCC DBREINDEX"
You can rebuild all index for a table with "Alter Index Rebuild" and "DBCC DBREINDEX" .
First, in BOL, for "DBCC...
2012-06-27 (first published: 2012-06-23)
17,992 reads
Blogs
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers