Lessons Learned from a Poor-performing VIEW
It is a “common knowledge” among SQL practitioners that VIEWs don’t perform well. Recently during an application’s development I put...
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)
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SQL backup directly to Azure storage
Most companies required to keep their database backup offsite (on tape) for many years due to audit requirement. This normally...
2015-03-12
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Future of Database Mirroring
One of the beloved feature of SQL server standard edition for HA is database mirroring, since you only have 2-node...
2015-03-12
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Data Compression–A unique feature PART–II TIP #92
In last post TIP #91 we talked about What is Data compression ? What are the features ? Now in this tip...
2015-03-11
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Why I don’t (yet) recommend In-Memory OLTP to my customers
Ok, some of you will hate me after this blog posting, but it has to be said. Over the last...
2015-03-11
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T-SQL – How to get the Financial Quarter details of a date field
declare @table table
(
[Paid Date] date
)
insert into @table
values('20150102'),('20150512'),('20150830'),('20151231'),('20141230')
;WITH Quarters AS (
SELECT Q = 'Q1', MonthBegin = 1, MonthEnd = 3 UNION
SELECT Q = 'Q2',...
2015-03-19 (first published: 2015-03-11)
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Using Solutions in SSMS
There are a handful of scripts I use on a regular basis. Adam Mechanic’s (b/t) sp_WhoIsActive, My sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions,...
2015-03-11
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Audit Schema Change Report
In a recent article on SSG, I discussed how to use Extended Events to function in a Profiler like fashion. You can read about that here. I recommend reading...
2015-03-11
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Audit Schema Change Report
In a recent article on SSG, I discussed how to use Extended Events to function in a Profiler like fashion....
2015-03-19 (first published: 2015-03-11)
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SQLRally Nordic 2015
Last week I attended SQLRally Nordic 2015 in Copenhagen. SQLRally is a regional conference organized by PASS, kind of a...
2015-03-10
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Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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