Daily Coping 9 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-09
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SQL server BIGINT
It has been a while since I wrote a blog post for TSQL Tuesday and there is no better time then now following on from Brent Ozar’s Invite about...
2021-03-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #136: Your Favorite (or Least Favorite) Data Type
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about data...
2021-03-09
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Setting the Sample Rate for Automatic Statistics updates
I talked a few posts ago about Automatic Sample Sizes for Statistics Updates. From SQL 2016 CU4 we've been able to override that. You can manually update a statistics...
2021-03-11 (first published: 2021-03-09)
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Azure SQL Database – Contained user Model
I always follow a contained user model when setting up users within my Azure SQL Database. I do this so the user in question has access to only specific...
2021-03-12 (first published: 2021-03-09)
341 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #136: Your Favorite (or Least Favorite) Data Type
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about data...
2021-03-09
12 reads
Introducing WordPress Stories: A New Way to Engage Your Audience
Interested in a new way to create and publish engaging content on your WordPress site? Today, we're unveiling our new Stories feature, now available in the WordPress apps.
2021-03-08
16 reads
Logging Messages with Raiserror – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I recently ran across some people discussing how...
2021-03-12 (first published: 2021-03-08)
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Daily Coping 8 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-08
10 reads
Webinar – Building a Proper SQL Server Database Security Model
Tomorrow, March 9, 2020, at 3 PM EST, I will be giving a presentation on how to build a database security model in SQL Server. We’ll primarily focus on...
2021-03-08
68 reads
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...
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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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