January 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Today is the first Monday of 2013. Do you know if your servers are ready to take on the first...
2013-01-07
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How I like to learn a t-sql command
Recently I received a security request and realized I wasn’t comfortable in my ability to script out the t-sql commands...
2013-01-07
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #14
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2013-01-07
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Statistics Update Clarification
By default statistics are created automatically within SQL Server. And, by default, these stats are updated automatically based on a...
2013-01-11 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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SQL Server has encountered % occurence(s) of cachestore flush for the % cachestore (part of plan cache) due to some database maintenance or reconfigure operations
Have you seen this type of an informational message in your SQL errorlog before? If so, then I hope the...
2013-01-07
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How to move file through FTP by CMD ?
CMD code to upload file direct into root of FTP site of server
@ echo off
REM ******** this batch file is to...
2013-01-07
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SQL Server – Login Failed, cannot open user default database
Each login in SQL Server has a default database associated with it. When you login to SQL Server context is...
2013-01-07
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Auto grow–On or Off Straw Poll
David Postlethwaite who contributes to this blog regularly sent me an email this morning asking about Database Auto grow.
This...
2013-01-10 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages
Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Yesterday, I...
2013-01-06
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Trying the Nest Thermostat
I’ve had the Nest Thermostat on my wish list for a while. It has looked like an interesting bit of...
2013-01-06
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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...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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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