T-SQL for Performance and Accuracy – Vern Rabe: A preconference essential for anyone using SQL Server
SQL Saturday Preconference: February 9th, 2018 in Redmond, WA Do you think you write T-SQL queries that perform well? Think...
2018-01-11
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Advent of Code 2017 Day 2–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-01-19 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #98 Round Up
Thank you to everyone that took the time to write and contribute, I enjoyed reading about how you conquered your...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would be called defaults. Having default settings is not a...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would...
2018-01-11
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Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
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How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
In general, the file extensions that we use for SQL Server data files are MDF (Primary Data File), NDF...
2018-01-11
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How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
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How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
In general, the file extensions for our SQL Data Files...
2018-01-11
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Changing the Path for the Master Database
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Changing the Path for the Master Database
This article will show how we can move the master database to a new location.
The ALTER DATABASE command would work for moving...
2018-01-11
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Changing the Path for the Master Database
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Changing the Path for the Master Database
This article will show how we can move the master database to a...
2018-01-11
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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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Switching Schemas I
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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