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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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
October 16, 2024 at 4:21 pm
Doing a "bump" so people can see page 2.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
October 16, 2024 at 4:17 pm
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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
--...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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. ...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
September 29, 2024 at 2:36 pm
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