Check your SQL Agent history settings before it’s too late!
A little while back I was doing some research into a failed job and ran into a slight problem. The...
2014-02-10
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SQLStudies
Transactions: What commands aren’t allowed?
Transactions are great tools that every DBA and developer should learn how to use. Unfortunately not everything can be put...
2014-02-13 (first published: 2014-02-05)
4,551 reads
Transactions: Creating a single restore point across multiple databases.
This is a disaster and recovery trick I’ve found to be useful for developers with batch processes that hit multiple...
2014-02-02
1,360 reads
Using sys.dm_exec_sql_text() to figure out blocking is sometimes flawed.
I frequently rely on joining sys.dm_exec_requests and sys.dm_exec_sql_text() to know what queries are running on a system and when I...
2014-01-29
1,170 reads
Negative session_ids
I probably had the most fun all week when a query I was running came up blocked. Sounds strange right?...
2014-02-03 (first published: 2014-01-27)
2,167 reads
The “most_recent_sql_handle” column
While researching my last post I ran across an interesting column I hadn’t noticed before, sys.dm_exec_connections.most_recent_sql_handle. I mentioned it in...
2014-01-22
1,078 reads
Transactions: Who, What and Where
Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I...
2014-01-23 (first published: 2014-01-20)
3,291 reads
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2014-01-15
897 reads
Guid vs Identity columns (Ints)
I came across an interesting question on SE last week. Guid vs INT – Which is better as a primary key?...
2014-01-20 (first published: 2014-01-13)
4,703 reads
Transactions: What are they?
I’ve done a couple of posts now talking about how rolling back a transaction works. I thought this time I...
2014-01-08
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Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
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In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
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CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
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Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers