T-SQL Tuesday #92 - Trust But Verify
It's T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month the host is Raul Gonzalez (blog/@SQLDoubleG). His chosen topic is Lessons Learned...
2017-07-21 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #92–Hard Lessons
A quick post, written last week as I’m relaxing in the mountains.
This month the topic is lessons learned the hard...
2017-07-11
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Save and save often
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and as I’m sure you remember that means it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday!...
2017-07-11
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SQL Server Rookie Mistakes
A quick elementary post which is my entry to this months’ T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by a good friend SQLDoubleG...
2017-07-20 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 59 – Drilldown Cartogram)
In this module you will learn how to use the Drilldown Cartogram Custom Visual. The Drilldown Cartogram is a map...
2017-07-18 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Raul Gonzalez and he’s asked everyone to share things we might be a bit embarrassed about:
For this month, I want you...
2017-07-11
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SQL Server On Containers
On July 12th 6.30 PM PST, I will be presenting “SQL Implementations On Containers” @ at San Francisco data platform user...
2017-07-10
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Impact on Indexes When Mixing VARCHAR and NVARCHAR Types
You may have heard, or read, that you should not mix VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes, especially when one of them...
2017-07-10
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Spider-Man Homecoming Twitter Sentiment
Hello Dear Reader! This past Thursday night I took my son Zachary to see Spider-Man Homecoming, it was an amazing movie with a fantastic cast. Both of us are...
2017-07-10
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Spider-Man Homecoming Twitter Sentiment
Hello Dear Reader! This past Thursday night I took my son Zachary to see Spider-Man Homecoming, it was an amazing...
2017-07-10
374 reads
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Question of the Day
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