Review of Minion Reindex
Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...
2015-03-16
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Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...
2015-03-16
631 reads
There are a number of ways that you can identify blocking that is occurring in your SQL instance. You can...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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There are a number of ways that you can identify blocking that is occurring in your SQL instance. You can...
2015-02-24
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I have recently seen some “bad plans” being generated by the optimiser and from investigation, the cause came down to...
2015-01-20
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I know it’s late but I’ve been away, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year.
I...
2015-01-05
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The new SQL Server 2014 feature In-Memory OLTP (code-named “Hekaton”) has been attracting a lot of interest since its release,...
2014-12-09
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A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Webucator (an online training company) asking if they could use my...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-05)
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I’m actually quite proud of the fact that I’ve now been doing this for a year now (and that I’m...
2014-11-07
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Each time you view a seek/scan operator in an execution plan, you may have noticed that there’s a value for...
2014-11-04
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Following on from my last blog post I now want to run through how to identify large queries using Extended...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
By SQLPals
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
By Steve Jones
Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
I have a table with partition on create_timestamp field. Though we're storing all data...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Adding and Dropping Columns II
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Leveraging DuckDB for OLAP Workloads:...
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers