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)
7,117 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
466 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
338 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
421 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
558 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
AI Experiments: Claude Solved a DAB Issue
By Steve Jones
I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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