What Counts for a DBA: Laziness
Louis Davidson is willing to bet that a relatively small handful of lazy people have done more for the world than all of the hard working people combined.
Data Science Laboratory System - Instrumentation
It is sensible to check the performance of different solutions to data analysis in 'lab' conditions. Measurement by instrumentation makes it easier to develop systems that are efficient.
Toggle Switches
SQL Server has grown and expanded to provide administrators and developers with a great deal of information on how it processes queries. However Steve Jones asks if you want more information and options for tuning.
Use of Identity Property to Resolve Concurrency Issues
This article describes how the identity property was used to resolve contention in a database
Creating Custom T-SQL Conditions and Policies for SQL Server Policy-Based Management
In SQL Server, the built in conditions and policies are a great place to get started with monitoring your environment, but there are no facets for some aspects of SQL Server I want to monitor. How can I check on my environment using Policy Based Management? Check out this tip to learn more.
SQLServerCentral Runs sp_Blitz - Performance Part 2
The second part of our performance examination on the SQLServerCentral database servers using the sp_Blitz script from Brent Ozar, PLF.
Zettabytes and Beyond
The growth of data, and the sheer scale of data we store and manage is stunning. Steve Jones looks at the rates of growth these days.
Query Tuning, Encryption, and more at SQL Intersection
Grant Fritchey is speaking about query tuning, Steve Jones talking about Encryption, Paul Randal telling you how to make SQL Server faster. All at SQL Intersection. Join us in April.
Using Optimizer_WhatIF and StatsStream to Simulate a Production Environment
SQL Server's Query optimiser judges the best query plan from the data in the relevant tables and the server's hardware. How, then, can you investigate the query plans being generated for slow-running queries on a customer's production server when you can neither access the server, nor recreate the database from a backup?
Populating a Vertically Filtered Replicated Table
Vertical filtering of a large replicated table introduces the potential for unwanted transactions to be pushed to the subscriber. This article talks about how you might avoid this.
Blogs
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers