TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does have?
What have I learned recently? Well as it happens I learned something rather interesting recently and was actually trying to...
2014-11-11
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TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does
How to remove additional (unwanted) log files
Using multiple data files is a common best practice for a number of reasons, but multiple log files? Typically a...
2014-11-05
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My DTS Package won’t load with the error “here were errors loading package”
You are trying to open a DTS package (yes some people still use DTS packages) and receive the following error:
Error...
2014-11-03
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Playing with the log – Before the first full backup
The log file tends to fascinate me. In fact one of my favorite posts is where I looked into the...
2014-10-29
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A script to list the DTS connection information for every package on the instance.
For those of you who have moved completely to SQL 2012 & 2014, Lucky you and don’t judge! For the rest...
2014-10-27
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Force only certain values to be unique
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures....
2014-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-22)
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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments...
2014-10-29 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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UNION vs UNION ALL
You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are...
2014-10-16
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TSQL Tuesday #59: My Hero, My Inspiration, My Wife
TSQL Tuesday is a blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) almost 5 years ago. This month Tracey McKibben (b/t)...
2014-10-14
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Required reading before upgrading SQL Server.
I was watching a great presentation by Brent Ozar(b/t) on why to move to SQL 2014 and in the Q...
2014-10-08
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SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
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Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
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Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers