SQLServerCentral Editorial: Doing What It Takes To Get The Job Done
I wrote Doing What It Takes To Get The Job Done about a conversation with my nephew working late to...
2014-04-15
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Writing a Question Of The Day–More Notes
Today I wrote another question based on an error message. I included the error message in the question this time...
2014-04-15
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SQL Server First Aid
If you take basic first aid, say a CPR course, you’ll learn a handy mnemonic for the primary assessment you...
2014-04-15
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[SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 102
Welcome back for part 2 of my SQL Snack Pack on Table Partitioning! If you have not watched the first...
2014-04-15
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Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q1
Since I write at different places – this blog, Intense School and MSSQLTips.com - someone recently asked me if I could provide an...
2014-04-15
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A ever-increasing Clustered Key value doesn’t scale!
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-04-15
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SQL Server 2000 || Disable sa login
Question : How to disable sa user in SQL Server 2000?
Reason : Due to Security requirement of audit, We have to disable...
2014-04-15
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Rounding versus truncating
Be careful when implicitly converting data types in T-SQL. Directly assigning 1.5 (either as a FLOAT or a NUMERIC) to...
2014-04-15
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Optional Parameters Causing Index Scans
Optional parameters in a stored procedure often lead to scans in the execution plan, reading through the entire table, even...
2014-04-15
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Listing the SQL Server SysAdmins With PowerShell
A very short blog today just to pass on this little script.
I was required to list all of the SysAdmins...
2014-04-14
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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