Nominations INETA North America Board of Directors
Picked this up from the local Net group here in Orlando. INETA is actually pretty helpful when it comes to...
2007-10-31
1,414 reads
SQLAndy
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-30
1,951 reads
How Much Pizza and Soda for a User Group Meeting (Why You Should RSVP)?
After a few meetings of oPASS this year the numbers I use are 2 slices of pizza and 2 drinks...
2007-10-29
1,445 reads
Views for Abstraction Posted on SSC
This went up today and there is one great comment about possibly using snapshot isolation as an alternative to the...
2007-10-25
1,353 reads
Steve Jones Finally Reads My Blog!
I've been following Steve's exploits trying to learn the podcasting business and we usually talk about it once a week...
2007-10-25
1,459 reads
SQLSaturday Finally Listed in PASS Connector
If you subscribe to the Connector (the main communication email from PASS.org) you should have gotten one yesterday that finally...
2007-10-25
1,397 reads
Untitled Pages in ASPX
If you do any coding in .Net using aspx pages you'll recognize this one. Each page has a title attribute...
2007-10-24
1,471 reads
Requiring Columns Over 900 Bytes to Be Unique
Had a friend call me recently to ask about how to do this, had an nvarchar(2000) column that needed to...
2007-10-22
1,449 reads
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-21
1,834 reads
SQLSaturday Update - 215 Registered!
We're at 215 registered with 3 weeks to the big day! This week I'll be having the last planning meeting...
2007-10-21
1,459 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it...
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
Forums
Think LSNs Are Unique? Think Again - Preventing Data Loss in CDC ETL
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Think LSNs Are Unique? Think...
The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The AI Bubble and the...
Question of the Day
A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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