Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an...
2014-01-13 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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SQLStudies
Happy new year!
Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had...
2014-01-01
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The 12 days after release
On the first day after release my developer gave to me
a performance problem on a crucial query
On the second day...
2013-12-24
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SSMS Shortcuts and more
I went and voted for #tribalawards and when I was finished they offer you links to 6 different free PDFs....
2013-12-23
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Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the ROLLBACK command rolls back the entire transaction all the way...
2013-12-19
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Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID)....
2013-12-17
1,522 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #49: Wait for it
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this time it’s being hosted by the SQL Soldier. He’s picked the subject of Waits....
2013-12-10
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Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE
I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which is...
2013-12-09
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Insert into a table using only default values
A while back I talked about the DEFAULT keyword and using it to tell SQL to use the default value...
2013-12-04
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Why do DBAs like to say “It Depends” so much?
Well the short answer is that they just don’t have enough information to give a definitive answer. You will notice...
2013-12-02
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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
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
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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