Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 4 Indices
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20
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The Changing World of BI, A New White Paper for Magenic
In the ever changing landscape that is Business Intelligence (or is that Business Analytics?), a fellow business analyst from Magenic,...
2013-06-19
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New Page - "How to Get Involved With the SQL Server Community"
I recently composed an email (on the side) for a client DBA looking for info on getting involved with the...
2013-06-19
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Recently Recompiled Resource Hogs
It’s not too uncommon for a query to get a new execution plan that performs a lot worse than it...
2013-06-24 (first published: 2013-06-19)
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Special Recognition For Top Community Leaders In India
I got a special recognition from Microsoft, India as one of the top community leaders.
My sincere thanks to SQLServerCentral (my...
2013-06-19
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 3 Scalar UDF’s
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-19
916 reads
Das Keyboard - First Thoughts
There seems to be a lot of buzz around mechanical keyboard lately as more and more manufacturers have started producing...
2013-06-19
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Dealing with Auditors: Password Settings
Yet again I've seen an audit request where the auditor wants the DBA to show what SQL Server's settings are...
2013-06-19
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SSAS Data Mining – Time Series Algorithm
At TechEd 2013, I attended a few sessions on the topics of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics. I thought I’d...
2013-06-19
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Speakers: Rehearsals Help
Today was a rehearsal day. Actually the last 2-3 days of work have been split between rehearsing talks that I’m...
2013-06-18
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Blogs
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...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers