Observe Carefully When Things Are Running Fine
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog:
As a worker in information technology, I’ve always been a big proponent of studying systems...
2013-01-14 (first published: 2013-01-10)
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Speaking at Midlands PASS in February
On February 12th I'll be giving a SQL Server Security Refresher for Midlands PASS at Microstaff IT in Cayce/West Columbia,...
2013-01-10
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Restore database permissions
Introduction:
I came across a couple of subtle gotchas around the permissions required to restore a database in SQL Server 2008+...
2013-01-10
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Try a Database Design Exercise At Your Next SQL User Group
Tried something different for the January 2013 meeting of the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group (brssug.org), which meets every...
2013-01-10
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SQL Saturday #198 Feb 16, 2013
SQL Saturday 198, http://www.sqlsaturday.com/198/ ; is coming to Vancouver Feb 16 this year. As of now, 56 sessions are collected from...
2013-01-09
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Determining Default Trace Location
While working on some scripts against SQL Server’s default trace, I wanted to develop a sure fire way to find...
2013-01-09
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January S3OLV 2013
I hope you are ready for some free SQL learning. Coming up on Thursday January 10th at 6:30 PM Pacific (GMT – 8 ) we will have a stellar...
2013-01-09
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January S3OLV 2013
I hope you are ready for some free SQL learning. Coming up on Thursday January 10th at 6:30 PM Pacific...
2013-01-09
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What Queries From The Application Do To Your Plan Cache
Usually, a database is meant to serve some kind of application, and .Net applications have a few possible ways to query...
2013-01-09
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A Learning Experiment
I’ve been looking for ways to improve the way I do my job, which is mostly writing and editing, but...
2013-01-09
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Blogs
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...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
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Switching Schemas I
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Enforcing Unique Customer Emails When Duplicates Already Exist
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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