Webcast: What Are You Waiting For?
What was the number one question from today’s webcast on wait statistics? Where can the slides and sample code be...
2012-03-15
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Ownership Chains in SQL Server
Someone asked the question recently about allowing a user to run a process,but not execute the individual pieces of the...
2012-03-14
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SQL Server 2012: Tabular Models vs PowerPivot Models
In SQL Server 2012, there is a new data model, called tabular, that is part of the new feature called the...
2012-03-14
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Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...
2012-03-14
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Understanding the concept of SQL Server Failover Cluster
Before getting hands on experience in SQL server on failover cluster , I used to read many article about failover clustering. Unfortunately...
2012-03-14
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How Resilient Is Your Recovery Plan?
In this modern age of technology DBA’s face an ever increasing demand from businesses; our databases must perform, be secure,...
2012-03-14
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Happy #Pi Day
Here’s wishing you a Happy Pi Day…
If my picture isn’t good enough, here’s a better representation of pi.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
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2012-03-14
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SQL Saturday 103 Recap
SQL Saturday 103 was in Curacao, a beautiful Dutch Island in the Caribbean. I was fortunate enough to be able...
2012-03-14
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Idera ACE Program
On March 9th a tweet went out by David Fargo announcing the 2012 Idera ACE’s and my twitter handle was...
2012-03-14
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Table Size and Missing FK Indexes
I am bringing an oldie back with another twist. I recently ran into the need to correlate information between a couple of different queries that I like to use....
2012-03-14
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Blogs
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers