SQL Saturday #28 - Keynote
I was honored to be asked to do the keynote for SQL Saturday #28 in Baton Rouge recently. It’s taken...
2010-08-26
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Default to Yes
There are a lot of times when the decision matters less than who makes it. A common if simplified example...
2010-08-26
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SQL Saturday #28 - Slides and Impressions
I’m late, I suck, but here’s some things I started in Baton Rouge and am just now getting out.
First, I’ll...
2010-08-26
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Mission Accomplished – Well sort of …
Did you ever set a goal and then sort of … demolish it without realizing it? That has happened this year....
2010-08-26
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Generate Insert Query in SQL
Sometimes we need to generate the INSERT script in sql server. When, we need to insert bulk of data from...
2010-08-26
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PASS Elections Portal
I think the shirt says it all
If you’ve been under a rock the last few weeks you may not know...
2010-08-25
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Changing of the Guard
A few weeks ago Andy Leonard (Blog | Twitter) announced that he was stepping down from his position as PASS Regional...
2010-08-25
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Memory
Not a sound from the pavement
Have you ever come across a SQL query that used to run faster? Has that...
2010-08-25
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You Don’t Need Log Backups
You don’t need log backups. You don’t. They aren’t required for SQL Server to function.
The place when you don’t need...
2010-08-25
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SQL Pass Voting forum
So far I have seen lots of blogs about SQLPASS regarding the Slate for this years BoD. I do not...
2010-08-25
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers