TSQL Tuesday #84: Zip to Speaker
Well, it’s that time of the month again. It’s T-SQL Tuesday yet again, and this time round it’s Andy Yun (b/t)...
2016-11-08
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SQLStudies
New indexes, hypothetically
I saw something like this the other day. My first thought was “Hu, never seen that before.” My second thought...
2016-11-02
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The Halloween Problem
DBA: Help me! Help me! It’s Halloween! I have a problem! Oh won’t you please help me!
Ok, so that’s really...
2016-11-07 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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It’s a small world
As I write this we are packing to leave for Disney World, where my family and I will spend close...
2016-10-26
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous
You’ll hear these terms thrown around in programming all the time, but what do they mean and why do we...
2016-10-24
774 reads
Installing SQLCMD
For anyone who wasn’t aware SQLCMD is a command line tool for running T-SQL statements and scripts. Before anyone says...
2016-10-19
891 reads
Using Snippets
A while ago I talked about Templates. This is an easy way to get a, well, template of a piece...
2016-10-17
461 reads
Too many indexes!
Indexes are great. They speed up our queries. In fact, without them relational database systems wouldn’t work.
Different indexes work best...
2016-10-13
582 reads
If backups are taken in silence can a recovery still take place?
My friend Andy Mallon (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. In case you aren’t aware T-SQL Tuesday is a...
2016-10-11
419 reads
Floor, Round, and Ceiling
I saw an interesting question today about rounding. Specifically they always wanted to round down. Now as it happens that...
2016-10-05
631 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers