SQL Homework – December 2017 – View the log
Last homework of the year. Last month was to create a view. This month it’s time to take a look...
2017-12-04
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SQLStudies
SQL Puzzle – Word Scrambler
I’ve been writing crosswords for the last few months and to change things up I thought I would do a...
2017-11-29
565 reads
Closing all of the connections to a database
Doing a database restore may not be the most common task a database professional will ever do, but it’s a...
2017-12-07 (first published: 2017-11-27)
7,347 reads
Why shouldn’t I shrink my database data file?
A while back I did a post about why you shouldn’t shrink your data file. This one is going to...
2017-11-20
467 reads
Variables in Dynamic SQL
I had someone ask me about this the other day. Specifically getting variable data out of a dynamic SQL statement....
2017-11-16
1,500 reads
It takes a village
Ewald Cress (b/t) is our host this month for Adam Machanic’s (b/t) monthly blog party T-SQL Tuesday. Having just gotten...
2017-11-14
339 reads
More Collation Confusion. (tempdb)
I’ve talked about Collation Confusion before. We had the dev and test instances at one collation and the production instance...
2017-11-08
428 reads
DBA Definitions: FILLFACTOR
It was recently brought to my attention that not everyone knows everything. This was a shock. Everyone is born knowing...
2017-11-06
568 reads
SQL Homework Nov 2017: Create a view
Views are a highly useful tool for abstracting how you see the data stored in tables. At their simplest, they...
2017-11-13 (first published: 2017-11-01)
1,518 reads
Haunted SQL: The ghost of Management Studio
Have you ever had a query change performance unexpectedly? Intellisense all of a sudden stops working, or gives inconsistent results?...
2017-10-30
675 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
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Understanding Temp Tables and Table Variables in SQL Server
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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