Writing A Month Long Blog Series
You might wake up one day soon and think, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to write a month long blog...
2011-02-14
613 reads
Presenting for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter
On Wednesday, February 16 at 2:00pm CST I’ll be presenting “.NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell!” to the PASS PowerShell...
2011-02-14
783 reads
Quest Webcast: Dos and Don’ts of Database corruption
I was guest presenter on last week’s Quest Pain of the Week presentation. The presentation is available for download from...
2011-02-14
651 reads
Working on the Railroad
I work with a client that has an office about 25 yards from a train track and recently the railroad...
2011-02-14
611 reads
Can I Add Controls to a Reporting Services Report?
I see this question on the forums all the time and thought it was worth a repost here.
Just this week,...
2011-02-14
1,332 reads
CHD Awareness Week
Do you know about congenital heard defects (CHD)? Did you know that February 7-14 is the week dedicated to making...
2011-02-14
476 reads
February PASSMN Meeting This Week
PASSMN meeting is this week on Tuesday. Without further ado…
Meeting Details
Here are the details on the meeting location and time:
Date:February...
2011-02-14
532 reads
Evaluating Performance of View and Stored procedure
I got a chance to evaluate performance of both views and stored procedure for high level decision making.
As all of Us knows that purpose/scope...
2011-02-13
11,593 reads
DBA 101: Why Don’t People Run Backups
It happened multiple times this week. It happens multiple times every week. Some poor soul is posting on a message...
2011-02-13
722 reads
SSMS Tools Pack – Script Grid Results
Most of us like things that make our lives easier. When they’re free, it’s just that much sweeter. I would...
2011-02-13
1,593 reads
Blogs
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers