Finding active DTS packages
DTS is dead, long live SSIS. Way back when SQL 2005 was announced then released DTS was pronounced DOA. SSIS...
2013-12-09 (first published: 2013-11-27)
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SQLStudies
Finding the metadata for a query
You know I occasionally find it interesting how I learn new things. I was running through a practice test for...
2013-11-25
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A pattern to do beginning of period calculations.
Beginning of period calculations are common things. Rolling month reports, queries to pull everything from last month etc require beginning...
2013-11-20
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Connection options in SSMS
When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SSMS there are a fair number of options. Most DBAs I know...
2013-11-18
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Who’s on call
Every morning we have a daily meeting and my manager asks who’s on call. And every morning some form of...
2013-11-13
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A better way to find missing indexes
I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a...
2013-11-11
988 reads
Physical Join Operators by Ami Levin
For those who don’t know the three physical join operators are Hash Match, Loop Join and Nested Loops. Understanding these...
2013-11-06
686 reads
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V3.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Adding a column to a table with a default (NULL vs NOT NULL)
There are lots of ways to learn new things, or be reminded of old things. One of my favorites is...
2013-11-05 (first published: 2013-10-30)
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Change in SQL 2012 SSMS grid output behavior
It’s one of those things that always aggravated me but not really enough to complain about. When you run a...
2013-10-28
707 reads
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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