What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks today about he various items that collect around your work space. Are they useful? should you be cleaning things up? What does this say about you?
Debugging Data Flow in SQL Server Integration Services
You can save a lot of time by using the SSIS Troubleshooting tools. These enable you to work with reduced data samples, monitor row counts, use data viewers, configure error-handling and monitoring package execution. Although you can develop SSIS packages without them, it is so much easier once you're familiar with these tools.
Bits Bound
Steve Jones talks about his trip to SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey, which begins today.
How to Setup Log Shipping for Multiple Databases
This article by Brian Davey describes how to setup log shipping for a large number of databases minimizing the number of jobs needed thus significantly reducing CPU and memory usage.
Data Mining Query Task in SQL Server Integration Services
One of the primary goals of business intelligence is to transform raw data into meaningful information, by combining its sources, discovering its dependencies and patterns, and using them to predict future trends.
Custom SSMS Shortcuts for ETL Developer. Part 2: Extended Properties
With the following technique, you can quickly read information stored in the extended properties of a SQL Server table.
Know when to hold 'em
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
Find Last Restart of SQL Server
How can you tell when your SQL Server instance was last started? In this tip we look at various methods of how to get the start time for a SQL Server instance.
Probabilities and Disaster Recovery
Today Steve Jones talks about the probabilities of different types of disasters occurring in your enterprise. He reminds you that the effort spent on disaster recovery ought to be related to the cost of the disaster, and the risk of it actually occurring.
Blogs
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers