The March 2009 Car Update
This month Steve Jones looks at the problems in the auto industry along with a link to the cars most likely to be caught speeding.
This month Steve Jones looks at the problems in the auto industry along with a link to the cars most likely to be caught speeding.
This month Steve Jones looks at the problems in the auto industry along with a link to the cars most likely to be caught speeding.
When it comes to performance tuning, locating the problem index is one of the first steps and being able to very quickly narrow the focus of your efforts makes for a much more efficient DBA.
Why does DBCC CHECKDB find corruption errors that disappear? Does tempdb really cause performance issues? Are there any drawbacks to using the FILESTREAM datatype? Paul Randal answers these reader questions and more.
SQL Server 2008 introduces " Policy Based Management " (PBM) as a way to better manage your servers. This was a feature that I really thought had, and still has a lot of potential for making the life of a DBA easier. The tagline for PBM is "manage...
Operations Manager has stacks of reports to help you monitor your applications' uptime, but reporting can be difficult until you understand all the different options, parameters, and the structure of the Operations Manager health model. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime', and only then you can start your reports. Thomas LaRock explains...
A follow-up on Adam Aspin's series about SSRS styles. I have emailed Adam the article because he suggested it would be good to have one here after his works get published.
In this new video, learn how to loop through your databases and tables. MVP Andy Warren shows how some system stored procedures included by Microsoft can push out the same code to a group of objects.
Working with others can be a challenge. This Friday's poll asks for those little annoyances in the workplace and how to deal with them.
Working with others can be a challenge. This Friday's poll asks for those little annoyances in the workplace and how to deal with them.
By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #202 entry for Marlon Ribunal's invitation on memorable SQL Server outages....
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers