Reblog: April 5 to April 11
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-04-12
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SQL Saturday#197–Omaha Recap
This was the second SQL Saturday hosted in Omaha. I loved to see how the event grew from the first...
2013-04-12
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DBA Question of The Day: What is SAVE TRANSACTION?
Hello Dear Reader! I was teaching a class in Chicago last week and I got a lot of really great...
2013-04-12
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SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD (2)
Last time I posted about How you can add date/time to output file name, in which I used xp_cmdshell to...
2013-04-12
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PASS Business Analytics Conference Live Blog
Apologies if you went to my site this morning to see my blog from the bloggers table at PASS Business Analytics...
2013-04-12
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PowerShell and SQL – Easy and Different Ways to Find Number of Rows of all Tables in a database
SQL Example:
DECLARE @TableRowsCount table
(
Tablename varchar(50),
cnt int)
insert into @TableRowsCount
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1=” select ‘?’,count(*) from ?”
select * from @TableRowsCount
PowerShell Example:
Load SQL PowerShell by...
2013-04-11
1,156 reads
I See BI People
A tweet from Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) this morning…
I’m surrounded by BI people!!!!#passbac
— Ted Krueger (@onpnt) April 11, 2013
inspired a little creativity…
You...
2013-04-11
777 reads
Entertainment for the Traveling Consultant (UltraViolet Review)
Like many of us, I have a collection of favorite movies. These include Ghostbusters, Stripes, Serenity, and dozens more. I...
2013-04-11
781 reads
Discover, Diagnose, and Document ALL Your SQL Servers On Your Coffee Break
We all know that we should document our SQL Servers, right? RIGHT?
So let's say you had some time on...
2013-04-24 (first published: 2013-04-11)
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SQL 2005 or above – Find Transaction Rate on a busy OLTP Database
Change Database name of a below mentioned query
DECLARE @cntr_value1 bigint
DECLARE @cntr_value2 bigint
SELECT ‘BEFORE’
SELECT @cntr_value1 = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE counter_name = ‘transactions/sec’
AND object_name = ‘SQLServer:Databases’
AND...
2013-04-11
629 reads
Blogs
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...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
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