Poor Little Misunderstood Views
Some people love ‘em, some people hate ‘em. But, one thing I have found to be nearly universal is that...
2010-07-29
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Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
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SQL Bits 7 – Registration is Open !
Registration is now open for SQLBits—The 7 Wonders of SQL Conference !!
This year its in York (Sept 30th till October 2nd).
SQLBits is...
2010-07-29
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Pesky Protected Mode
How many of you keep falling for this one…You open up Report Manager for a user that you know you...
2010-07-29
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The Killer Backslash in TSQL
--it is
quite startling to see that this, in TSQL, executes.
Select \
/*
---------------------
0.00
(1
row(s) affected)
so does
this....
*/
Select null /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
/*
---------------------
NULL
(1
row(s) affected)...
2010-07-29
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Interviewed by Andy Leonard
Last year Brent Ozar interviewed all the candidates for the PASS Board of Directors. I think it went over pretty...
2010-07-29
1,915 reads
Ambiguities and the wild object.oriented brigades
--Whilst trying to design a more effective way of detecting dependencies in a SQL Server database, I was mulling over...
2010-07-29
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Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
Log Shipping By Abi Chapagai (Revised)
In SQL Server, transaction log provides an ability to recover a database to a point...
2010-07-29
2,395 reads
Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1
Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the...
2010-07-29
707 reads
SQLSaturday #40 is Almost Here – July 31, 2010
I’ll be leaving Friday morning with my family to go to Miramar, Fla, for the 2nd annual SQLSaturday there. I’m...
2010-07-29
530 reads
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
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
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...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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