A Learning Experiment at SQL Saturday #187– Richmond
In a little over a week, SQL Saturday #187 takes place in Richmond, VA. I’m looking forward to going back...
2013-02-27 (first published: 2013-02-25)
1,151 reads
Benchmark SQL Server Disk Latency
Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...
2013-03-06 (first published: 2013-02-25)
4,493 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-25
1,006 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 25 (Integrity Checks)
Welcome to Day 25 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-07 (first published: 2013-02-25)
2,313 reads
SQL Saturday #187 Richmond And More
In just a couple of weeks I’ll be flying down to Richmond, VA to speak at SQL Saturday #187. I’ll...
2013-02-25
889 reads
DROP and CREATE vs ALTER
When writing a script to change a piece of code, say a stored procedure or view, there are 3 basic...
2013-03-05 (first published: 2013-02-25)
5,117 reads
Building My Next Workstation–Part 2
Building a computer, at least in the beginning, feels like something you have to do holistically and at the same...
2013-02-25
1,263 reads
SQL BLOG: Calculating total number of days from 1st Jan without using DATEDIFF function
Below script will calculate total number of days based on the input from user from 1st Jan. Though we have...
2013-02-25
884 reads
Managing Critical Server Lists with Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Most Server Administrators, whether Database Administrators or not, are quite familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection (a.k.a. RDP) tool, which...
2013-02-25
2,621 reads
Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
1,365 reads
Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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