The effect of VLF size on shrinking the log.
I was wondering the other day how VLF (Virtual Log File) sizes effected shrinking the log file so I decided...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-26)
2,634 reads
SQLStudies
Lots of ways to UNPIVOT a table
I recently read an awesome post on http://www.stackexchange.com questioning how to change columns to rows ie UNPIVOT. One answer demonstrated...
2013-08-21
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sp_SrvPermissions
Last week I posted my stored procedure for database permissions, sp_DBPermissions. A couple of days later I was demonstrating it...
2013-08-19
1,460 reads
sp_DBPermissions
Last week I posted a series of database permissions scripts. I’ve been using them quite a bit over the last...
2013-08-14
1,484 reads
“My transaction log is too big!”
“My transaction log is too big!” I wish I had a dime for each time phrase has been spoke, written,...
2013-08-12
1,662 reads
How are COALESCE and ISNULL different?
At first glance these two functions seem very similar, and superficially they are. For example COALESCE(fieldname1, fieldname2) and ISNULL(fieldname1, fieldname2)...
2013-08-16 (first published: 2013-08-07)
8,892 reads
Database Permissions Queries
Over the last year of blogging my thoughts and queries I’ve discovered something interesting. I posted Where is my Backup?...
2013-08-05
1,441 reads
Using DTEXECUI to generate a DTEXEC command line statement the easy way
SSIS is one of those tools that I love and hate at the same time. It’s a great ETL tool...
2013-08-05 (first published: 2013-07-31)
2,721 reads
Notes on debugging Database Mail problems
I’ve had to debug database mail problems several times over the last year or so. Below is a collection of...
2013-07-29
1,407 reads
I’m going to my first SQL Saturday!
I got to go to the Pass Summit in 2011 and had a fantastic time despite some travel issues caused...
2013-07-24
664 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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SQL Server Still Wins
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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