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
2,446 reads
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
1,613 reads
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
594 reads
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
950 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
676 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)
1,855 reads
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)
5,171 reads
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
697 reads
Blogs
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Breaking Rules in Rome
By Steve Jones
Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
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Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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