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  • RE: Undoing compression

    The return type is VARBINARY(MAX) , so, it should be CASTed to a char type.
    Also, there's an undocumented function UNCOMPRESS.
    select UNCOMPRESS(decompress(COMPRESS('a')))
    Try: it returns the...
  • RE: ROLLBACK to a SAVEPOINT

    Ken Hiatt - Wednesday, October 31, 2018 5:05 AM

    I’m confused... what are the 2 transactions that are being counted? And is...

  • RE: ROLLBACK to a SAVEPOINT

    Sean Lange - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 7:18 AM

    The part of this that is scary is that it seems to perpetuate the...

  • RE: Adding a Column Set

    Interesting!
    Also, you don't need to drop the entire table, you can drop sparse columns and re-add them with the ALTER TABLE command

    CREATE TABLE UserConfig
    (...

  • RE: Adding a row to a column set

    Giles Sutcliffe - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:20 AM

    Queries as written return no data whatsoever, so none of the answers is correct,...

  • RE: Adding a row to a column set

    I've got it right, but the first and second answer seems to be equal!
    Can someone  clearyfy me?
  • RE: Drop table in one shot

    Kaye Cahs - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 6:50 AM

    Interesting question, Carlo. Thanks.

    I did not know that I could drop more than one...

  • RE: Restoring without CHECKSUM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Monday, July 23, 2018 11:27 PM

    Comments posted to this topic are about the item Restoring...

  • RE: Restore options

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:14 AM

    ?? When is it a good question? When did I do...

  • RE: Restore options

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, June 26, 2018 3:02 AM

    Points awarded back. I never looked at compression, just randomly choosing...

  • RE: Restore options

    From BOL:

    To enable backup checksums in a BACKUP statement, specify the WITH CHECKSUM option. To disable backup checksums, specify the WITH NO_CHECKSUM option. This is the...

  • RE: Page considered Suspect in SQL Server 2017

    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell - Monday, May 21, 2018 11:27 PM

    Had to read up on this (haven't dealt with suspect databases for quite...

  • RE: Dropping Event Sessions

    From BOL:
    Remarks
    When you drop an event session, all configuration information, such as targets and session parameters, is completely removed.

  • RE: EMPTYFILE

    tonykindermann - Wednesday, May 2, 2018 6:01 AM

    Hi Steve,
    Great question!!

    But from my experience and test on SQL2017... In the end of the...

  • RE: TRY to CAST

    Japie Botma - Tuesday, April 10, 2018 12:59 AM

    So TRY_CAST is a new function.  Maybe you should specify the version. 🙂

    No, it's...

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