Identity columns are all over the place. Probably 80-90% of the tables I see have them and they are almost ... Continue reading
2019-11-29 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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Anecdotally any session_id that’s 50 or less is going to be a system session and anything over 50 will be ... Continue reading
2019-11-18
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Over the years I’ve seen quite a few strange things with SQL Server. This one may not have been the ... Continue reading
2019-11-25 (first published: 2019-11-14)
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Hey, it’s T-SQL Tuesday again! I almost forgot about it what with Summit and all. Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter) is our ... Continue reading
2019-11-21 (first published: 2019-11-12)
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I’m blogging they Keynote! One of my bucket list things has always to live blog a keynote at Pass Summit ... Continue reading
2019-11-07
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This week is the PASS Summit and it has me thinking about all of the amazing work done in our ... Continue reading
2019-11-06
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Time for some homework again. I know Pass Summit is this week so you may be a bit busy but ... Continue reading
2019-11-04
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We need to have processes and rules. They are important to any business. That said, exceptions are also going to ... Continue reading
2019-11-07 (first published: 2019-10-30)
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I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers ... Continue reading
2019-10-28
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I’ll admit, I’m a lot more comfortable with tracing and the profiler than I am with EE (extended events) and ... Continue reading
2019-10-23
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Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
By Steve Jones
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
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If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers