Two simple commands that can be a big help in performance tuning.
The first thing that always comes to mind when discussing performance tuning is query plans and rightly so. They are...
2014-09-02
2,593 reads
SQLStudies
Finding a job!
I’ve been told over the years that I’m pretty good at finding jobs. I mean in the last 25 years...
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-27)
7,695 reads
The amazing never shrinking heap
This is a quick demo of a little “trick” with heaps I’ve known about for a couple of years. However...
2014-08-25
612 reads
Two years!
Two years ago today I began my blog with a post about the DEFAULT keyword. I set out with the...
2014-08-20
944 reads
Generating a restore script
In order to speed up our backups on a large database our team decided to stripe the backup files. In...
2014-08-25 (first published: 2014-08-18)
7,520 reads
More than sp_help
If you have worked with SQL Server for very long you have probably run across the extremely useful system function...
2014-08-14
1,494 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #57: SQL Family
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is SQL Family and is brought to us by Jeffrey Verheul (b/t). It’s an amazing...
2014-08-12
586 reads
SchemaBinding – What & Why
What
When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying tables...
2014-08-06
1,117 reads
Deny vs Revoke
Quick quiz. Which of these two commands is the opposite of GRANT?
DENYREVOKE
Well lets start with some definitions
GRANT – Grants permissions on...
2014-08-12 (first published: 2014-08-04)
8,513 reads
The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.
Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes...
2014-08-07 (first published: 2014-07-30)
9,425 reads
Blogs
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...
T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code
By Steve Jones
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
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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