Some SQL Server Date and Time Examples
I had a question from a developer yesterday about how to calculate the difference between local time (on the database...
2010-05-06
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-06
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SQL Saturday #49 – Call for Speakers
SQL Saturday #49 in Orlando just opened their call for speakers. I’m debating if I want to go out there....
2010-05-06
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May OPASS Meeting Tonight
Join us tonight for our May OPASS meeting at the SQL Share Offices 225 S. Westmonte Drive, Suite 2010, Altamonte...
2010-05-06
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Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2008
We recently decided to use Team Foundation Server as our source control and, really, project management system. This decision was...
2010-05-06
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Internal Marketing
I heard this recently at my company. Our group, which is relatively removed from the main business of writing software,...
2010-05-06
748 reads
Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto
I saw The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande ($15 @ Amazon) at the bookstore and had to read it. I’ve used...
2010-05-06
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Performance Tunning -Checklist
continue with performace tunning stuff, I would like to make a checklist (kind of) for general performance tunning or dba...
2010-05-06
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Viewing the results before and after, during Update
DBAs & Developers using everyday UPDATE statement, and everytime before update they want to see what to update, after this they...
2010-05-06
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Using CPU-Z to Discover Hardware Information
I think it is very important to be able to discover exactly what type of hardware is in an existing...
2010-05-05
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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