Statistics Update Clarification
By default statistics are created automatically within SQL Server. And, by default, these stats are updated automatically based on a...
2013-01-11 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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SQL Server has encountered % occurence(s) of cachestore flush for the % cachestore (part of plan cache) due to some database maintenance or reconfigure operations
Have you seen this type of an informational message in your SQL errorlog before? If so, then I hope the...
2013-01-07
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How to move file through FTP by CMD ?
CMD code to upload file direct into root of FTP site of server
@ echo off
REM ******** this batch file is to...
2013-01-07
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SQL Server – Login Failed, cannot open user default database
Each login in SQL Server has a default database associated with it. When you login to SQL Server context is...
2013-01-07
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Auto grow–On or Off Straw Poll
David Postlethwaite who contributes to this blog regularly sent me an email this morning asking about Database Auto grow.
This...
2013-01-10 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages
Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Yesterday, I...
2013-01-06
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Trying the Nest Thermostat
I’ve had the Nest Thermostat on my wish list for a while. It has looked like an interesting bit of...
2013-01-06
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Day 5 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in a Nonclustered Index
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Welcome to day 5 of my series on disaster recovery. I want to start digging...
2013-01-08 (first published: 2013-01-06)
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Give the Gift of Feedback
I bet if you think about it there are lots of times when people ask what you think about a...
2013-01-05
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Reports on Disk Space and Space in Files
Previously I have blogged about how to check for free space in a database at a file level; a file for a database can be very large, but the...
2013-01-05
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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