A PASSionate Community
Much has voiced about the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Nominating Committee’s decision to not put Steve Jones (blog,...
2010-08-31
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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Replication Gotcha - Including An Article In Multiple Publications
When administering replication topologies it's common to group articles into publications based on roles that subscribers fulfill. Often you'll have...
2010-08-31
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Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index
In the last weblog
post I have talked about the difference of unique and non-unique clustered indexes.
As you have seen SQL...
2010-08-31
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SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment
Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando....
2010-08-31
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Return top 20 queries by Average CPU
I’ve recently used this when troubleshooting some unexplained high CPU load on my server:
select top 20st.objectid, st.dbid, total_worker_time/execution_count AS AverageCPUTime,CASE statement_end_offsetWHEN -1...
2010-08-31
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How to fix Orphaned Users
To view if there are any orphaned users, run this query against the DB;
sp_change_users_login ‘report’
To fix;
sp_change_users_login ‘update_one’, ‘dbUser’, ‘sqlLogin’
2010-08-31
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Determining the no of processor cores in your SQL Server
SELECT cpu_count/hyperthread_ratio AS cores FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info;
2010-08-31
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Come and gone
Or “Plan cache monitoring – insert and remove”
Previously I took a look at the CacheHit and CacheMiss events to see how...
2010-08-31
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Maintenance Plan "No description found" error
for Sql server 2005, It was a bug when you modify maintainance plan you may get the error “no description...
2010-08-31
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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