Emailing tempdb Query Results to Paul Randal with PowerShell
I was referred to someone on twitter today who wants to email query results without setting up database mail. I...
Monitoring Transactional Replication – The Distribution Queue
This article looks at the distribution database what information can be obtained for monitoring transactional replication.
SQL Saturday #69 - Philadelphia
SQL Saturday comes back to Philly on Mar 5, 2011. Spread the word and come get a free day of training on SQL Server.
Odd Questions
Interviews can be strange for many reasons, often because interviewers are not well prepared to evaluate candidates. This Friday Steve Jones asks you what weird things you might have encountered in an interview when someone is asking you questions.
Automatic Statistics Update Slows Down SQL Server 2005
I have a database which has several tables that have very heavy write operations. These table are very large and some are over a hundred gigabytes. I noticed performance of this database is getting slower and after some investigation we suspect that the Auto Update Statistics function is causing a performance degradation.
Drive
What motivates people? What makes them happy at their jobs? Steve Jones talks about Drive, the book by Dan Pink, and the possibility that people actually like doing their jobs and are willing to work.
Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
Top 10 Transact-SQL Statements a SQL Server DBA Should Know
Microsoft SQL Server is a feature rich database management system product, with an enormous number of T-SQL commands. With each feature supporting its own list of commands, it can be difficult to remember them all. MAK shares his top 10 T-SQL statements that a DBA should know.
Commuting Pain
Did you know that commuting can actually affect your health? Steve Jones talks about an IBM study on this and suggests you talk to your boss about telecommuting or remote work. The option to do so just might be beneficial for your long term health.
Is CPU-Z Risky To Run on a Production Server?
There was a conversation on Twitter recently (with the #sqlhelp hashtag) about whether it was completely safe to run the...
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers