A Very Simple Blocking Alert
Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...
2021-05-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #138
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...
2021-05-11
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What do you do when technology changes underneath you? (T-SQL Tuesday #138)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...
2021-05-11
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SSIS – Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int
I recently encountered a SSIS package that was failing due to an ‘arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int’; Conversion/overflow errors aren’t that unusual – normally a data...
2021-04-06
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Serverless Azure SQL DB can show incorrect data space usage in the Portal
A quick PSA on the behaviour of Serverless Azure SQL DB space reporting in the Azure Portal. I recently had to shrink a large Azure SQL DB for cost...
2021-03-31
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Getting SQL Services Information with Powershell
Hopefully you already know everything about your SQL estate, including what services are installed and what’s running them, either because it’s so small you just know, or, preferably, you...
2021-03-15
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Blogs
What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?
This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog...
Adding Row Numbers to a Query: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I realized that I hadn’t done much blogging on Window functions in T-SQL, and...
Adding Row Numbers to a Query: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I realized that I hadn’t done much blogging on Window functions in T-SQL, and...
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Question of the Day
Starting to Estimate Disk Storage for Memory-Optimized Tables
If I have durable memory-optimized tables, what is the starting point for estimating storage space?
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