Recapping SQL Saturday Albany 2020 (virtual)
This weekend was SQL Saturday Albany 2020. This was my third time attending the Albany event, my second time presenting, and my first virtual SQL Saturday. As always, Ed...
2020-07-26
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Getting Started with Stream Analytics
Resources
Resources
If you want a schema reference for the json Application Insights produces // [Azure Application Insights Data Model // Microsoft Docs
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If you want to visualize last 90 days of...
2020-07-25
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Saving My Garmin Data
With the Garmin outage, I was a little worried about my data. As a result, I wanted to ensure I could get information off of my device and at...
2020-07-24
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Calculating Application Availability in the Cloud
When deploying business critical applications in the cloud you want to make sure they are highly available. The good news is that if you plan properly, you can achieve...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-24)
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Daily Coping 24 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-24
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Giving Back to Speakers
It might be hard to think back to 2007, but at that time, there were only a few SQL Server events taking place in the world. SQL Bits held...
2020-07-24
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Probing Columnstore Indexes
This article was first published on: 2020-03-14.
This article will probe the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload for real-time analytics.
We'll cover examples...
2020-08-04 (first published: 2020-07-23)
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Daily Coping 23 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-23
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Tonight is the PASS Marathon on SQL Server Performance
The event is tonight, and it’s my first time helping out as a moderator. I got a call for volunteers, and I added my name. The event starts at...
2020-07-23
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The What, Why, When, and How of Incremental Loads
When moving data in an extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process, the most efficient design pattern is to touch only the data you must, copying just the data that...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-23)
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Blogs
Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
Differences Between xp_readerrolog and sp_readerrorlog: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different...
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There
By SQLPals
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There Why sys.fn_dblog...
Forums
Implementing Type 4 Slowly Changing Dimensions in SQL Server
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The Disabled Index
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Server-Level Table sizes
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers