Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you...
2015-02-18
2,216 reads
SQLStudies
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,760 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security: Rollup
When I decided on security as my topic for February’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party my thought was that security was...
2015-02-12
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TSQL Tuesday #63: – DBA Myths: You can’t deny something to a member of db_owner database role
So I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and decided that since security is something everyone has to deal with it...
2015-02-19 (first published: 2015-02-10)
7,218 reads
Dealing with layered function calls
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are...
2015-02-16 (first published: 2015-02-05)
6,282 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security?
Come on down! You’re the next contestant on T-SQL Tuesday! I’m your host Kenneth Fisher and this month I’d thought...
2015-02-03
924 reads
A quick email interview of Pass President Thomas LaRock
Back in December I had the thought that it would be fun to do an email interview with someone. As...
2015-02-06 (first published: 2015-01-28)
6,814 reads
SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – February 2014 – KILL with the DAC
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-01-29 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,298 reads
Constraint names, Say NO to the default
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it...
2015-01-21
1,924 reads
Except and Intersect
EXCEPT and INTERSECT are two uncommon commands. Not that they do anything odd but they aren’t exactly well known in...
2015-01-23 (first published: 2015-01-19)
8,532 reads
Blogs
Solving SQL Server Mysteries with a Whole Gang of Sleuths -Scooby Dooing Episode 4
One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
SQL Server Availability Groups
By Kevin3NF
Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Modify Power BI page visibility and active status with Semantic Link Labs
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
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Using table variables in T-SQL
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Azure elastic query credential question
I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
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Using table variables in T-SQL
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers