Troubleshooting Dynamic SQL
Troubleshooting performance problems takes a lot of time and work. This article outlines the process the author uses - pretty interesting.
Stored Procedure Development Cycle
This month Robert covers the process he uses for developing stored procedures. In many ways it reflects how software is developed, but it does have it's minor differences. This is a high level process discussion, not a line by line example of the entire process - by design of course.
Where Do I Want To Go Today? - From the Field
Where should SQL Server go in the future? What enhancements are needed? Steve Jones takes a break from his wishes to include some feedback from users who have some wishes of their own. Read about what real users of SQL Server would like to see included in future versions.
Returning a Subset of a Recordset
Stateless programming can be tricky... In case you ever need to return a specified subset of a query without first returning the entire recordset, here's a method.
VBScript Class to Return Backup Information
The second article in a 3 part series that presents another VBScript class file that creates a class that can be used to display the backup information from a SQL server's maintanence plans.
Where Do I Want To Go Today? - Bidirectional Indexes
Where should SQL Server go in the future? Steve Jones continues to explore his wish list for future versions of SQL Server. This one examines an enhancement that could speed up some of your queries by enhancing the index structures.
Disaster Recovery Reporting scripts
Joe Sack returns (is back?) with some scripts you can use to log information you may need when disaster strikes.
Testing for an Updated Column in a Trigger
The columns_updated function gives you the ability to easily test to see if specific columns were modified with less code than you might otherwise need to use. In this article Andy Warren demonstrates how to create a trigger that uses this function and points out some reasons why you may NOT want to use it!
Create Maintenance Job with a Click without using a Wizard
Don't like the blackbox approach of maintenance plans? Like the maintenance plans but need a tweak to suit your needs? New author Robin Back has put together a monster script to allow you to build your own quickly and easily.
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
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Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
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One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
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What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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