Tracking Table Sizes
Today Steve asks if you track the details of your table growth inside a database.
2025-03-07
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Database Administration
How to rename a SQL Server database
There may come a time when you want to or need to rename a database. In this tip we look at a couple different options.
2025-01-31
SQL Server Forced Plans Overwite the Query Hash
A 16-year old SQL Server bug that means 'forced plans' have the query plan hash in place of the expected query hash. Includes an explanation and discussion of the term 'morally equivalent plan'.
2024-12-27
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2024-11-25
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How Do You Patch 100 Database Servers?
The challenges of managing lots of system are significant and there aren't easy solutions, but Steve has a few thoughts on what you can do.
2024-11-18
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How Many Indexes Is Too Many?
Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete:
2024-11-11
A Tidy Database is a Fast Database: Why Index Management Matters
Learn about the ways in which you might better manage indexes for a better performing and efficient database.
2024-11-11
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2024-11-01
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Specifying the Collation
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Question of the Day
Specifying the Collation
I am dealing with issues on my SQL Server 2022 instance related to collation. I have an instance collation of Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS, but a database collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS. I want to force a few queries to run with a specified collation by using code like this:
DECLARE @c VARCHAR(20) = 'Latin1_General_CI_AS'
SELECT p.PersonType,
p.Title,
p.LastName,
c.CustomerID,
c.AccountNumber
FROM Person.Person AS p
INNER JOIN Sales.Customer AS c
ON c.PersonID = p.BusinessEntityID
COLLATE @c
Will this solve my problem? See possible answers