Project Phoenix: Late August Awards Announced
Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected. Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be...
2010-08-31
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A PASSionate Community
Much has voiced about the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Nominating Committee’s decision to not put Steve Jones (blog,...
2010-08-31
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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Replication Gotcha - Including An Article In Multiple Publications
When administering replication topologies it's common to group articles into publications based on roles that subscribers fulfill. Often you'll have...
2010-08-31
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Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index
In the last weblog
post I have talked about the difference of unique and non-unique clustered indexes.
As you have seen SQL...
2010-08-31
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SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment
Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando....
2010-08-31
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Return top 20 queries by Average CPU
I’ve recently used this when troubleshooting some unexplained high CPU load on my server:
select top 20st.objectid, st.dbid, total_worker_time/execution_count AS AverageCPUTime,CASE statement_end_offsetWHEN -1...
2010-08-31
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How to fix Orphaned Users
To view if there are any orphaned users, run this query against the DB;
sp_change_users_login ‘report’
To fix;
sp_change_users_login ‘update_one’, ‘dbUser’, ‘sqlLogin’
2010-08-31
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Determining the no of processor cores in your SQL Server
SELECT cpu_count/hyperthread_ratio AS cores FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info;
2010-08-31
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Come and gone
Or “Plan cache monitoring – insert and remove”
Previously I took a look at the CacheHit and CacheMiss events to see how...
2010-08-31
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Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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