problem solving: sometimes you need to walk away from a problem to solve it
If anyone is a believer in solving challenges through sheer force of will, it's me. I'm a stubborn man and...
2012-11-14
725 reads
SQL PASS Summit 2012 Came and Went – and Changed My Life
I cannot believe how surreal this past SQL PASS Summit was for me. This was the second Summit I have...
2012-11-20 (first published: 2012-11-14)
1,958 reads
Remote Desktop and Surface
The Windows RT operating system is not the same as Windows. After all the talk about the upcoming OS and...
2012-11-14
2,371 reads
SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse
The SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse and SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse are very high end builds of Microsoft’s...
2012-11-14
918 reads
Database Mirroring Performance Counters
This week’s SQL Skills insider email contains a simple but often too true scenario regarding database mirroring. If you haven’t...
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-11-14)
2,727 reads
SQL Server Virtualisation
SQL Server Virtualisation - Lots of companies and organisations are adopting a virtualisation first approach to the installation of new servers...
2012-11-14
786 reads
SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one Media\File
Today, We try to check of SQL server when trying to take Compress & UnCcomprees Backups in one Media\File.
Query No. 1
BACKUP...
2012-11-14
2,500 reads
Rules of Holes #2: You Are Still in a Hole
OK. So you followed the First Rule of Holes -you stopped digging yourself in deeper. But now what? You are still in a Hole. Your situation has not changed...
2012-11-14
8 reads
Rules of Holes #2: You Are Still in a Hole
OK. So you followed the First Rule of Holes -you stopped digging yourself in deeper. But now what? You are still in a Hole. Your situation has not changed...
2012-11-14
12 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #36 – Community
Chris Yates (@YatesSQL / blog) is hosting the T-SQL Tuesday blogging party this month, and he wants to know “What does...
2012-11-13
733 reads
Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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