SQLSaturday Redmond(SQLSat212) – A quick recap !
That was indeed a great day at Redmond. I had a great time talking to some of the best SQLServer minds...
2013-05-20
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Getting Information from a Database using Dynamic SQL
I ran across someone that was building a restore script to automated their restores. This person wanted their script to...
2013-05-20
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The many uses of CROSS APPLY
Over the last few years of studying SQL I’ve noticed 4 different uses for the command CROSS APPLY.
In the first...
2013-05-23 (first published: 2013-05-20)
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Azure does Powershell too
Or, I guess it might be more appropriate to say that Powershell does Azure. Regardless, there are a set of...
2013-05-23 (first published: 2013-05-20)
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #33
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-05-20
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SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate through All SQL Instances – Example Transaction Log Shrinking
There are many ways to execute SQL’s or T-SQL’s across listed SQL Instances. Most of us might have faced and...
2013-05-20
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Per Member Per Month Per 1000 Calculations in MDX
In a lot of industries there is a popular calculation called “Per Member Per Month Per 1000” calculation or the...
2013-05-24 (first published: 2013-05-20)
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SQL Server – Show/Hide Results Pane in Management Studio 2012
In earlier version of SQL Server Management Studio (2005, 2008 and 2008 R2) you can show/hide results pane using keyboard...
2013-05-20
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SQLSaturday#200 PA Event Update!
With less
than two weeks to go until SQLSaturday#200 at 45
Liberty Blvd., Suite 210 Malvern, PA 19355, Malvern, PA, 19355 they're...
2013-05-20
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Indexes – Understanding basic types and their components
The biggest problem developers and newer DBAs have with understanding indexes is that you don’t realize when you’re using the...
2013-05-18
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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...
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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