TSQL Challenge 52: Recursive Wage Calculation in a Parent-Child dimens
This challenge is intended to calculate company's wage spent below a top level manager.
ANSI Connection Settings
It’s reasonably well known that you can get different execution plans if you change the ANSI connection settings. But the...
SQL Server Service Broker - External Activation
SQL Server Service Broker allows for two types of messaging activation, Internal Activation or External Activation. In this article we discuss External Activation.
Looking at SOX
This Friday Steve Jones asks what impact the Sarbanes-Oxley act has had on your job. After nearly a decade since the act was passed, is it intrusive in the workplace or just another part of your job.
Mouse Clicks, Reactive Extensions and StreamInsight Mashup
I had an hour spare this afternoon so I wanted to have another play with Reactive Extensions in .Net and StreamInsight. I also didn’t want to simply use a console window as a way of gathering events so I decided to use a windows form instead. The task I set myself was this. Whenever I click on my form I want to subscribe to the event and output its location to the console window and also the timestamp of the event.
SQLskills Immersion Events - Deep SQL Server Training!
SQLskills is offering a number of intense SQL Server training events later this year. A new class has been added in Chicago in May along with a London event in June.
Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
What a week for our first Immersion Event on Internals and Performance
A short writeup on the first Immersion Event from SQLskills, a week long class designed to bring real world skills to DBAs and developers that want to become highly skilled SQL Server professionals.
Implicit and Explicit Conversions
Code that depends on implicit conversions can live for years in production without issue. However Steve Jones says that you shouldn't depend on these conversions
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services - Managing Local Processes Using Script Task
SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services includes a number of predefined tasks that implement common administrative actions to help with data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL). While in a majority of cases they are sufficient to deliver required functionality, there might be situations where an extra level of flexibility is desired.
Blogs
Tooling for Success: The Best FinOps Tools and Technologies
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more...
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
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SQL Art 2: St Patrick’s Day in SSMS (Shamrock + Pint + Pixel Text)
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Breaking Down Your Work
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers