Searching and finding a string value in all columns in a SQL Server table
Sometimes there is a need to find if a string value exists in any column in your table. Although there are system stored procedures that do a "for each database" or a "for each table", there is not a system stored procedure that does a "for each column".
Avoiding the Hell of having to Remember DDL syntax
What's your favorite productivity tool when writing SQL? Phil Factor has has flirted with most of them, from templates and snippets to a programmer's clipboard and back again.
The Instance ID MSSQLSERVER Is Already In Use
This article will explain how to fix "The Instance ID 'MSSQLSERVER' Is Already In Use By SQL Server Instance 'MSSQLSERVER.INACTIVE'
Error.
How to Drop All Your Indexes – Fast
You probably shouldn't be doing this, but if you need to, Brent Ozar has a script for that.
A Pattern for Email Address storage and retrieval
Email addresses are very prevalent in IT systems and often used as a natural primary key. The repetitive storage of email addresses in multiple tables is a bad design choice. Following is a design pattern to store email addresses in a single table and to retrieve them efficiently.
Voting for Change
Microsoft changed some things in SQL Server 2017 in response to community requests. Steve Jones is asking for more.
SQL Server R Services: Digging into the R Language
It is not just the analytic power of R that you get from using SQL Server R Services, but also the great range of packages that can be run in R that provide a daunting range of graphing and plotting facilities. Robert Sheldon shows how you can take data held in SQL Server and, via SQL Server R Services, use an R package called ggPlot that offers a powerful graphics language for creating elegant and complex plots.
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers