Being a Better IT Pro – Get to the Point
When writing emails or other communications, state your point or request right at the beginning.
For instance, if you need...
2014-01-07
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Happy 2014
I am a bit late with the almost obligatory “How was my past year and how do I think next...
2014-01-07
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Picking The Next Cell Phone
Cell phones are incredibly useful tools. Even a bad one is better than not having one, but a bad phone...
2014-01-07
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Don't Hitch Your Wagon To MS Access
I know this might seem like an odd topic on a SQL Server blog, but it's a common and critical...
2014-01-07
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Reliably Drop A Database In T-SQL Script
I read with interests about Greg Low’s post “Reliably Dropping a Database in a T-SQL Script is Too Hard”, I...
2014-01-07
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Reliably Drop A Database In T-SQL Script
I read with interests about Greg Low’s post “Reliably Dropping a Database in a T-SQL Script is Too Hard”, I...
2014-01-07
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January 2014 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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It’s the first Monday of 2014. Time for a new year and some resolutions to be a better DBA....
2014-01-06
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
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SQL Server Quickie #9 – Clustered Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-06
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Interview Questions – what to ask the company interviewing you
Previously, I posted a list of interview questions that I ask job candidates. This post is about the questions that...
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers