SQL Saturday US Map
Apparently, SQL Saturday isn’t popular in the west. See for yourself. I wanted to see what cities frequently host SQL...
2012-08-03
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Apparently, SQL Saturday isn’t popular in the west. See for yourself. I wanted to see what cities frequently host SQL...
2012-08-03
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I’m having a little fun with documenting basic information about indexes in my current project. I’m posting the scripts here...
2012-07-31
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MaxConcurrentExecutables, a package level property in SSIS determines the number of control flow items that can be executed in parallel....
2012-07-20
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A surrogate key is an auto generated value, usually integer, in the dimension table. It is made the primary key...
2012-06-28 (first published: 2012-06-24)
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I occasionally review the search terms people use to get to this blog and secretly celebrate knowing my post helped...
2012-06-19
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Topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Aaron Nelson (@SQLVariant) is Logging.
I like to think of logging as a...
2012-06-19 (first published: 2012-06-12)
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As I learnt a few things about blogging, I made a list of tips to get better at blogging. Thought...
2012-05-17
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You might constantly see a warning message that appears like the one below when creating Analysis Services Tabular projects. It...
2012-05-08
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I hear you. You’ll use the Execute Package Task. This mechanism of executing one package from another is popularly knows...
2012-05-01
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In DTS, changing package properties was close to impossible (the less we talk about DTS, the better). Package configurations introduced...
2012-04-24
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Be Wary of Data
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate, o_orderkey, o_custkey, o_storekey FROMdbo.orders WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;