Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
3,648 reads
SQLStudies
Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement
I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
4,602 reads
CTEs beyond SELECT
The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...
2012-11-20
1,965 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...
2012-11-15
2,762 reads
Time Trial sys.dm_exec_query_plan vs sys.dm_exec_sql_text
I’ve been working on a way to test performance usage on a server by database. I started out using sys.dm_exec_query_stats...
2012-11-12
1,698 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...
2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)
2,768 reads
A review of Knight’s 24-Hour Trainer Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
About three years ago my manager came up to me and said “We need someone to learn SSIS, you’re it.” ...
2012-11-07
1,175 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS
This is just a quickie post to answer a question on how to loop through multiple servers in SSIS. There...
2012-11-05 (first published: 2012-10-31)
4,964 reads
How do I find all stored procedures or views that use a specific table?
Many years ago when I was still working on SQL 2000 I occasionally needed to find all stored procedures and views...
2012-10-26
11,050 reads
I can connect to my instance locally but not remotely
Every now and again (today for example) I’ll get a call that one of our SQL Server instances is down. ...
2012-10-23
1,250 reads
Blogs
A Very Cool Benefit in SSMS 21
By Steve Jones
I saw a post from Erin that Preview 2 is available. I’d gotten a...
AI Helping with an API
By Steve Jones
Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is...
Creating a “Real” Copy of a View: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw a post where a developer was trying to read the Information Schema...
Forums
Topic marked as spam - by mistake?
I received the following notification a few hours ago. It seems legit but has...
Getting blockage on Update Statement
Hi, Need your help. I've a SP that is using Update statement on a...
Query is filling Tempdb
I have query which is filling TEMPDB I need suggestion how to modify this...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join III
In a hash join, if all the build input does not fit in memory, what type of hash join is this?
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