Pagination in SQL Server
It amazes me how much easier certain tasks have gotten in SQL Server. I was watching the Nov 2014 SQL...
2015-01-22 (first published: 2015-01-15)
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SQLStudies
TSQL Tuesday #62: Invitation to Healthy SQL – Why Page Verify?
I don’t think anyone’s ever been happy to get a support call at 11pm on a Saturday night. However this...
2015-01-15 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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Discussing Security with Boris Hristov on SQLHangout #29
Over the years I’ve done a number of posts on various aspects of security. In fact the first thing I...
2015-01-12
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Finding the reason for the error “Subquery returned more than 1 value”
First this type of error is because a subquery returned more than one row when it wasn’t allowed to. In...
2015-01-07
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – January 2014 – Restore the Master
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-01-08 (first published: 2015-01-05)
6,250 reads
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-12-30
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Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And...
2014-12-31 (first published: 2014-12-29)
5,867 reads
Do you want to build an Audit?
So I’ve written my second article for SQL Shack. This time instead of an overview of auditing options in sql...
2014-12-29
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Playing with the log – VLF order while growing the log
The log file is one of those parts of SQL Server I find fascinating. For instance it is composed of...
2014-12-23 (first published: 2014-12-17)
5,835 reads
‘Twas 4:45 Friday
‘Twas 4:45 Friday, and all through the office
not a creature was stirring, not even the bosses.
The code was checked in,...
2014-12-25 (first published: 2014-12-16)
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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