Emotions and Decision Making
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
Learning SQL Server 2016
Here is a reference that lets you take a quick look at the new features in SQL Server 2016 and dig into the various items with a collection of links we'll maintain.
Visualize the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and email
Generate an HTML page with the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and sp_send_dbmail
SQL Server 2016 DBCC CHECKDB with MAXDOP
Ahmad Yaseen explains how you can control the number of processors assigned to the SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB command in order to free-up the server's resources.
Dummies Guide for a SQL Server Presentation
Preparing for SQL Server presentations is always a challenge. This article provides a few guidelines for the same
Wasting Time
Things at work that waste your time are impediments to actually getting work done. Management ought to be in the business of removing as many of these things as possible.
SQL Database: How to Configure Active Geo-Replication
Active Geo-location is powerful magic for ensuring the high availability of a Azure SQL database, and for disaster-recovery. In choosing the best options, you need to accurately understand the value that the business places on the service you're running, long it will take for a secondary replica to be in synch with the primary replica, the importance of spreading the location of replicas widely, and the maximum tolerable unscheduled downtime. Just clicking all the options could prove to be expensive.
Real-time Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016 - Part 2
Arshad Ali discusses the different design considerations for leveraging the Real-time Operational Analytics feature of SQL Server 2016, covering the different scenarios where it fits or does not fit, and how to get started with it for disk based tables.
Database Nonsense - Unstructured Data
Sloppy terminology leads to big misunderstandings. Terms don't get much sloppier than "Unstructured data".
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Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers