TempDB Deleted Accidentally
TempDB is the ALU of the SQL Server and if somehow this gets deleted Server cannot start. Here is a solution of how to get the server started when TempDB is deleted.
A Developers' Guide to Refactoring Databases
When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to to easily coexist with Agile methodologies for application development? Nick suggests that the technical solutions already exist, and the dissonance is more due to cultural and organizational problems
Cascading Human Error
The recent Amazon AWS outage was blamed on human error. Steve Jones notes that the more interconnected our systems are, the more likely that a human error might cause cascades between the systems.
SQL 2008 SP/CU Patching Through Windows Scheduled Tasks
Automate patch installations using the task scheduler and command line hotfix options for SQL.
SQL Server Foreign Key Update and Delete Rules
Foreign key constraints are an integral part of SQL Server database design. These are used to maintain integrity among related data in different tables. While implementing update and delete operations on values in the parent table (referenced table with primary key) we have to consider the impact on related values in the child table. SQL Server provides different rules for managing the effect of updates and deletes on child table values. How can these rules be used effectively without threatening the relational integrity?
100% Microsoft?
This week Brad McGehee asks if your company is a 100% Microsoft software shop or if you are allowed to use third party software with your SQL Server.
The Intelligence Cloud
More cloud talk today as the Air Force is building a new intelligence sharing system in the cloud? Why the cloud? Is the cloud really better?
TSQL Challenge 55 - Multiply two very long decimal strings and return
This challenge to multiply two positive integer strings and return their product. The strings can be really long: up to 1024 digits
Performing DBCC Checks Using SQL Virtual Restore
Ever restored a corrupted database from the backup, only to find that the backups are corrupted too - All the backups? Sure it can happen and it isn't nice when it does. To check that a database backup is internally consistent you have to use DBCC CheckDB. On a huge highly-loaded live system? Grant Fritchey has, as usual, a practical solution.
Temporary Indexes
Temporary indexes can speed up processes that run periodically in your applications. This Friday Steve Jones asks how many of you use temporary indexes and how you do so.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
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A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
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the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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