Slipstreaming SP\CU During Setup
This article shows how to slipstream the SP and CU during the SQL Server setup process.
The Professional Student
This week Steve Jones talks about the need for people working in technology to be professional students. Get a few ideas of what you can learn this week from Database Weekly.
TSQL Challenge 46 - Remove leading occurrences of the first character
This challenge is a slightly enhanced version of the ‘remove leading zeros’ problem
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 - Partitions and Allocation Units
Before moving on to see anatomy of different types of pages, lets spend some time to understand
The relationship among sys.objects,...
Using INSERT / OUTPUT in a SQL Server Transaction
Frequently I find myself in situations where I need to insert records into a table in a set-based operation wrapped inside of a transaction where secondarily, and within the same transaction, I spawn-off subsequent inserts into related tables where I need to pass-in key values that were the outcome of the initial INSERT command. Thanks to a Transact/SQL enhancement in SQL Server, this just became much easier and can be done in a single statement... WITHOUT A TRIGGER!
Connection Strings 101
This article introduces connection strings and suggests using MDAC to easily write efficient connection strings for those new to SQL Integration.
Call in the Experts
Today we have an editorial from Feb 1, 2006 that is being reprinted as Steve Jones is on vacation. Steve talks about the need to call in a friend to check on the performance of the SQLServerCentral servers.
FREE! SQL Scripts Manager – a Christmas gift from Red Gate
Red Gate has released SQL Scripts Manager, a free tool containing over 25 scripts written by SQL Server experts, to help you automate common troubleshooting, diagnostic, and maintenance tasks.
Blogs
Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
Forums
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment Level 3 – Rehearsing Changesets Across Environments
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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Limit the Blast Radius
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Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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