Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post dispelling the myth that the simple recovery model disables the transaction...
2013-11-04
940 reads
RealSQLGuy - Helping You To Become A SQL Hero
Building The Redneck Treadmill Desk
Don’t tell Brent Ozar, but here’s another DBA writing another helpful article about shrinkage. Before he gets bent out of...
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-11-04)
3,961 reads
sp_BackupDatabases v1.2
I just posted a new version of sp_BackupDatabases. The biggest change is that the procedure now creates one-time SQL Agent...
2013-10-29
1,618 reads
What’s In My Utility Belt? Issue #1
Welcome to the first issue of what I hope will become a monthly series called “What’s In My Utility Belt?”....
2013-10-29
544 reads
SQL Query Formatting – Putting Lipstick On A Pig
“Psssst….”
“Hey buddy! Yeah, you there in the propeller hat. You’re a SQL nerd, right? Can you help me tune this...
2013-10-24
910 reads
No, Simple Mode Doesn’t Disable The Transaction Log
If you’ve spent any time with me in person, trading war stories, you’ve likely heard my rant about the consultant...
2013-10-21
6,259 reads
One-stop Shopping for Backups
First, let me say that yes, I’m aware of Ola Hallengren’s excellent set of maintenance scripts, including those for doing...
2013-10-05
377 reads
New Blog Series – Origins
I’ve been struggling for months to bring this blog back to life. I’d love to produce content dedicated to the...
2013-10-02
427 reads
Using A Non-correlated Subquery To Avoid DISTINCT
Nobody wants duplicate data. It’s messy, wastes space, and looks really bad on a report – I get that. What I...
2013-10-02
1,314 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
Change Tracking – Troubleshooting
I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers