Sometimes a change is as good as a break : T-SQL Tuesday #134
James McGillivray (blog|twitter) wants us to give him a break. Well. Actually I guess he wants to know how we ... Continue reading
2021-01-12
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SQLStudies
SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-11 (first published: 2021-01-05)
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-05
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Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
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SQL Homework – December 2020 – Participate in the Advent of Code.
Christmas. Depending on where you live it’s a big deal even if you aren’t Christian. It pervades almost every aspect ... Continue reading
2020-12-03
83 reads
How do I tell what compression level my tables/indexes are?
It’s been a while since I worked with compression and the other day I needed to check which of my ... Continue reading
2020-11-27 (first published: 2020-11-17)
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A quick and dirty scan of a list of instances using a dynamic linked server.
Note: This is not exactly a dyanmic linked server. It just gets dropped and recreated in a loop. I recently ... Continue reading
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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I get by with a little help from my friends : T-SQL Tuesday #132
Taiob Ali (blog|twitter) is our host for TSQL Tuesday this month and he’d like us to talk about how our ... Continue reading
2020-11-13 (first published: 2020-11-10)
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Adding a user to an Azure SQL DB
Creating a user is simple right? Yes and no. First of all, at least in SSMS it appears you don’t ... Continue reading
2020-11-19 (first published: 2020-11-05)
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SQL Homework – November 2020 – Help!
If you ask any senior IT person What is the most important tool you have? there is a decent chance that ... Continue reading
2020-11-10 (first published: 2020-11-03)
577 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp
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MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY in extended event , is not clearly explained in msdn.
hi, i have checked reducing it increasing it but could not get any...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers