2011-02-07
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Administration
2011-02-04
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Rebuild SQL Server Master Databases in Less than 5 Minutes
How to rebuild your master database quickly and safely.
2011-02-03
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(new) Kill ALL Connections To a SQL Database
Ever puzzled by the database "Currently in Use" error even though you thought all connections had been Killed? That’s because the wrong table SysProcesses was used.
2011-02-15 (first published: 2011-01-26)
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2011-01-25
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2011-01-24
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2011-01-20
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2011-01-19
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Making a more reliable and flexible sp_MSforeachdb
While the system procedure sp_MSforeachdb is neither documented nor officially supported, most SQL Server professionals have used it at one time or another. This is typically for ad hoc maintenance tasks, but many people (myself included) have used this type of looping activity in permanent routines. Sadly, I have discovered instances where, under heavy load and/or with a large number of databases, the procedure can actually skip multiple catalogs with no error or warning message. Since this situation is not easily reproducible, and since Microsoft typically has no interest in fixing unsupported objects, this may be happening in your environment right now
2011-01-18
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2011-01-17
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Blogs
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
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Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers