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
563 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)
6,645 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
463 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
1,493 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
337 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
414 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
545 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)
1,513 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
672 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...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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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...
Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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