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Certainly learning your existing tools well is important. However, I think you should also be learning new skills and judging when they are useful. That means lots of tests.
For...
October 11, 2024 at 5:53 am
From the Article:
That's a tough process to implement, and one many companies don't spend the time doing, but for those that do, they end up deploying many...
October 11, 2024 at 5:20 am
Great article and links, Steve. Thank you.
Fishing has been perfected. There are no new ways to entice fish to take your bait.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/timeless-fishing-skills
An old-fashioned cedar plug is a simple but...
October 9, 2024 at 2:46 am
Good idea for an article but there are a few issues... here's one of them...
Here's your "Disable the Indexes" example...
-- Disable indexes
ALTER INDEX ALL ON YourTable DISABLE
--...
October 7, 2024 at 3:39 pm
First of all, the warning was telling you that you have columns that you're doing aggregates like SUM() and COUNT() on contain some NULL values. Are you sure those columns...
October 6, 2024 at 2:40 am
You can also (since recent SSMS) set the limit of the number of characters returned in the grid for non-XML data (varchar(max) for exemple)
Thanks for the...
October 4, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Bit late to the party on this one (only just seen the article).
Instead of using FOR XML PATH, there's a new function (I've only just started using it on...
October 4, 2024 at 3:06 pm
I might get a few eye-rolls from you, in return, because I'm going to tell you to stop doing generic, catch-all, supposed "Best Practice" index maintenance. It's all causing more...
September 30, 2024 at 10:03 pm
I do mean to be of good spirit so please don't take offense.
You've certainly impressed us there.
September 29, 2024 at 8:23 pm
Speaking of "stuck"... rumor has it that the good folks at SSC are going to start working on problems like the one I'm getting ready to experience when I hit...
September 29, 2024 at 3:37 pm
Jeff, no, I don't have access to the TFS VM's disk to see allocated vs. used disk space.
Bummer. And, yeah... them not "getting it" after all the issues is...
September 29, 2024 at 3:34 pm
To this day I don't understand how come no one in IT saw the pattern that adding only a little more disk space and having that consumed within a...
September 29, 2024 at 2:46 pm
Ah yes, there's another thing I should have mentioned! After composing your code, please try running it. Yours fails to run.
The code probably worked perfectly on the OPs machine. ...
September 29, 2024 at 2:36 pm
This was very helpful. I learned some also from it.
I hopefully have posted my current question in a better format and have explained myself well enough.
Thank you
My apologies. Apparently,...
September 29, 2024 at 1:56 pm
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