Buzzword Bingo
Grant Fritchey (b/t) is our host for T-SQL Tuesday this month and surprise surprise he’d like to talk about DEVOPS....
2017-06-13
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SQLStudies
UDP vs TCP
If you’ve worked much with named instances you’ve probably had to deal with the question “What port is that instance...
2017-06-07
537 reads
Backup to NUL
Yes, I spelled that correctly. NUL not NULL. NUL is basically a location you can send a backup to. In...
2017-06-05
5,082 reads
SQL Crossword
I thought I’d do another crossword. Enjoy! If you need any help with it feel free to let me know...
2017-06-16 (first published: 2017-05-31)
2,803 reads
Running multiple queries at the same time.
I read an interesting question today. Someone wanted to be able to run the same stored procedure multiple times, at...
2017-06-08 (first published: 2017-05-24)
9,447 reads
What’s in a partition?
In my last post on partitioning I used the $Partition command in passing. I’ve been thinking it deserves a bit...
2017-05-22
503 reads
T-SQL FizzBuzz
I was looking around for something to write about this evening and came across one of Russ Thomas’ (b/t) old...
2017-05-17
2,860 reads
Why shouldn’t I shrink my database log file?
TL;DR: It’s pretty pointless and can cause performance issues.
Let’s start by asking why you might want to shrink your log....
2017-05-15
478 reads
Dynamic SQL and the joys of QUOTENAME
I’m a big fan of dynamic SQL. In the past I’ve written a How to, a Best Practices and even...
2017-05-11
585 reads
Continuous Integration
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! This month we are being hosted by James Anderson (b/t). Thanks James! He has asked us...
2017-05-09
415 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Forums
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Economics of AI: What is the Real Cost to Profit?
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Poor Name Choice
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Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers