Goodbye, 2013
For me, 2013 was one of the most interesting and busy years of my life. It was a good year...
2014-01-01
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Day 8 – Ring in The New
This is the eighth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season. Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits: SQL Sat LV announcement...
2014-01-01
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Day 8 – Ring in The New
This is the eighth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2014-01-01
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Happy new year!
Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had...
2014-01-01
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Wrapping Up 2013
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year (also 2011 and 2010) to see where I landed from...
2014-01-01
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MVP Award for 2014
Earlier this morning I received a notification from the Microsoft MVP program that I’ve been recognized as a SQL Server...
2014-01-01
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Answer - Objective Question (Number of non clustered indexes possible on a Table in SQL Server 2008R2)
Question :-
How many non clustered indexes are possible in a table in SQL Server 2008R2
1) 1
2) 249
3) 999 (Correct answer)
4)...
2014-01-01
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Answer - Question of the Week - 28/12/2013 - Question 2
Question:- Suppose we have a table named tbl_charactername have only one column say "charactername".It contains 10 rows. First 5 rows contains...
2014-01-01
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While loop in SQL server
In While loop, we set a condition for the repeated execution of a SQL Code block or a SQL Statement....
2014-01-01
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Final Giveaway And Some Stats
Today I'm honored to give the final prize in a month of free giveaways here, the book; Professional SQL Server 2012...
2014-01-01
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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...
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Pay for Performance
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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