Automating Replication On Your Server
If you use replication, you have had the situation occur where you had to restore a replicated database. You’ve have doubtless been paged to restore a replicated database. You...
2019-07-31
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The Non-Cluttered Index
2019-07-22
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
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Why I Take Pictures at Conferences
Why do I take pictures of screens at conferences? Let me count them up for you! Read on...
2019-07-05
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Gone Fishing…
It's SQLIntersection time, and also time to meet a new member of the family. He's old enough for social media, though...
2019-06-07
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What is Service Broker, and Why Would We Use It?
I was recently asked in a Service Broker class that I was teaching why we would use it. Good question! Read on....
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-03)
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Drop It Like It’s Hot (Part 2 of the Rename/Drop Objects Process)
Dread the drop no more! Part 2 of the rename/drop process.
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Find Occurrences of a String Anywhere on an Instance
Oh, the dreaded string search (on an entire instance). What to do?
2019-04-11
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Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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That Awkward Moment When….
Let's be honest - some of our best learning experiences come from our mistakes. Here's one of mine....
2019-04-05
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Blogs
Build a C++ Pipeline with Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure ACR and Azure App Service
In today’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having a robust build pipeline is very...
Better Trigger Design: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
SQL Server in the Cloud – Are DBAs Still Needed?
By Kevin3NF
Things your cloud vendor may not tell you Here’s a common theme I...
Forums
Dropping a PK constraint.
I will have to test this next week, but will not have a chance...
SQL - Conditional merge join
I want to add a condition in the joining columns part of the merge...
Is there a way to implement ROWS between logic?
Hi everyone SUM function has the option to select ROWS BETWEEN parameter to allow...
Question of the Day
What is Between?
I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * FROM dbo.Products WHERE ProductID BETWEEN 4 AND 7;See possible answers