SQLSaturday #164 Cleveland – Tick tock, people!
If you haven’t already heard, Cleveland is hosting SQLSaturday #164 on August 18. That date is coming up fast and...
2012-06-06
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Do You Know An Exceptional DBA?
Do you know a DBA that saves the day time and again? Or one that doesn’t need to save the...
2012-06-06
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Getting started with SQL Server on private cloud
I have been invited to a private beta of SQLDirector by ScaleGrid. “SQLDirector is a MS SQL as a Service...
2012-06-06
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Presenting Tips
Having done a number of presentations, I have accumulated a list of items to go over before each presentation to...
2012-06-06
1,166 reads
Just another SQL blog
I started out as a software developer back in 1996 in Denver, CO, doing Client/Server development in PowerBuilder. The internet...
2012-06-06
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On Break
I’m at Orlando International as I write this, about to fly to Parsippany for meetings today and tomorrow, then back...
2012-06-06
636 reads
Do You Document Your SQL Server Instances?
When I was a novice DBA, I spent little time documenting my SQL Servers. But as I became more experienced,...
2012-06-12 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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Creating a Filetable
How do you create a filetable? I assume you’ve enabled Filestream and created a filegroup for your filestream and filetable...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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Guest Blog
I was given the opportunity to put together a guest blog post for the MVP blog. I did a little...
2012-06-05
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New SSIS 2012 Expressions
SSIS 2012 has added a few new expression functions and I thought I’d spend a short time detailing each.
LEFT
The LEFT...
2012-06-05
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Blogs
T-SQLTuesday 204: Are blogs still relevant?
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
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Switching Schemas I
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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