Should You Use Index Hints?
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One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
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Should You Use Index Hints?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
11 reads
Failed to join local availability replica to Availability Group – SQL Server error 41106 and 41158
When you configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group from management studio, it may fail with below error while joining secondary...
2018-07-31
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SQL Server Availability Group Auto Seeding Error
SQL Server Availability Group Auto Seeding is a wonderful thing, it saves database administrators time when setting up availability groups. ...
2018-07-30
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Coming Back After complete 3 Years
Friends/My Readers,
Its been a long i have been away from my blogging.When i see back Its exactly 3 yrs Today(30/July/2015...
2018-07-30
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Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking
Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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#SQLCareer 2/4 July 25th 2018
Earlier this month Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be helpful if those of us that work in the...
2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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The Failed One Laptop Per Child Project
I wrote about OLPC back in 2010 (and before that, somewhere back on a post I didnt port over here...
2018-07-30
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Are you a morning or evening person?
I am not a morning person. I’ve really tried but there’s something in me that just stops me from getting...
2018-07-30
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Disable or Turn-off SQL Server Telemetry Service
With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft is installing SQL Server Telemetry or CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) Services by default. It...
2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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BIT_COUNT() V
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