Process Support Database Framework
Do you use or need a database process framework? Read on to see if this is something that might help you build better database software processes.
Using XML to pass lists as parameters in SQL Server
Every so often, the question comes up on forums of how to pass a list as a parameter to a SQL procedure or function. Phil Factor provides some examples using XML, and tests them against other popular methods.
No Cloud for Stack Exchange
The use of cloud computing isn't in the plans for the Stack Exchange network of sites? Steve Jones thinks they have a pretty cool reason not to use the cloud and he thinks you ought to have a similar view at work.
Controlling Growth of an msdb Database
I recently encountered a situation where the drive hosting Sharepoint Databases in a Staging environment ran out of space. I logged onto the server and found that the msdb database has itself occupied 38 GB of the total disk space. Msdb database generally contain maintenance information for the database such as backups, log shipping and so on.
Database Development Tasks Survey
We'd like to better understand the kinds of database related development tasks that you perform, so that we can ensure our tools are helping you to be more productive.
Back to Vegas
The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.
How to get monthly YTD data
This article presents an easy method to get YTD data grouped by months in T-SQL.
Physical Database Design Consideration
There are lots of things to think about when you design a physical database. What data types should I use? What column is appropriate for the primary key? Are there particular indexes that I should use to improve performance? How should I implement data integrity rules? This list goes on and on. In this article Greg Larsen will be exploring different physical database design elements.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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