What is the “cost” in Cost Threshold for Parallelism?
tl;dr; While at one point the cost of a query was an estimated time to run in seconds, today it’s...
2017-04-17
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tl;dr; While at one point the cost of a query was an estimated time to run in seconds, today it’s...
2017-04-17
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VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) continues to grow and change over time. It seems every few months I see some...
2017-04-17
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“We have all of that information. It’s in a database in my office.” This phrase was music to my ears....
2017-04-27 (first published: 2017-04-17)
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In the previous post I demonstrated the use of binomial formula to calculate probabilities of events occurring in certain situations....
2017-04-17
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One of the things that I do a lot is demo changes to databases with CI/CD in a DevOps fashion....
2017-04-17
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Simple post today: How to compare two plans in SSMS.
This task is a task that is often done by a...
2017-04-18 (first published: 2017-04-14)
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FYI: This one is way off topic so don’t expect to find any fancy SQL tips here.
I did it. I...
2017-04-14
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As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern....
2017-04-25 (first published: 2017-04-14)
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I’m very pleased and delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award 2017. This...
2017-04-14
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Dear All,
Last week, I had travelled to the beautiful city of Christchurch, for speaking in SQL Saturday South Island. This is by far the farthest I have travelled for...
2017-04-14
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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