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
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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
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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)
6,815 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)
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Blogs
SQL Server Alerts
By Kevin3NF
Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until...
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
By Steve Jones
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell...
From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Collation errors...what is best way to deal with it?
Hi I have a SP that occasionally get this error: Cannot resolve the collation...
Was the index created or not?
Hi everyone I am getting an error when I create the index but I...
Question of the Day
Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch in SQL Server 2022? See possible answers