STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1
Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about the performance of STRING_SPLIT() with a few additional reader-motivated tests.
Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about the performance of STRING_SPLIT() with a few additional reader-motivated tests.
Ability to enable Instant File Initialization during the installation of SQL Server 2016.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away. Andy tries to define what a DBA really does in a way that might make sense to others.
In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and then run that command. This can be done quite simply from the application perspective where the statement is built on the fly whether you are using ASP.NET, ColdFusion or any other programming language. But how do you do this from within a SQL Server stored procedure?
Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
This week Steve Jones recommends installing Cumulative Updates. If you can test them.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an obvious first-step towards migrating on-premise organisational data to the cloud. So how do you get started with it? Robert Sheldon provides a simple guide that should provide you with sufficient of the the basics you need to get a SQL Data Warehouse database up and running.
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?