Automation starts by doing something once, very very carefully: T-SQL Tuesday #110
After a while the intros for my T-SQL Tuesday posts get a little boring. So without any further ado, it’s...
2019-01-08
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SQLStudies
SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years...
2019-01-02
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Using Microsoft Learn
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...
2018-12-31
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Identity in a SELECT
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error...
2018-12-17
1,014 reads
Bulk insert and an identity column
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file...
2018-12-12
994 reads
Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...
2018-12-10
233 reads
UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
7,221 reads
SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS
I’ve committed to posting a piece of homework for you to do each month. I post at the beginning of...
2018-12-03
201 reads
Oh Query, Query, Query
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week.
I...
2018-12-18 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,756 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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