Starting with SQL Server 2008 a new feature which allowed us to create compressed backup files by pre-allocating space. This tip will look at the performance impacts of disabling pre-allocation of space using the 3042 SQL Server trace flag.
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
This article will give you a basic look at how you can test your user defined functions with the tSQLt framework.
One of the shocks that a developer can get when starting to program in T-SQL is that there is no simple way of generating documentation for routines, structures and interfaces, in the way that Javadocs or Doxygen provides. To embed the documentation in the source is so obvious and easy that it is a wrench to be without this facility. Phil Factor suggests a solution.
SQL Saturday is coming to Vancouver, British Columbia on June 27 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Register while space is available.
Would you want a query optimizer that searches for the best plan for your code? Steve Jones thinks this might not be a bad idea.
Redgate's DLM Workshops are coming to Belfast, NI on June 26, 2015. Learn how to: deploy databases using Redgate's DLM tools, assess the different requirements of production and non-production deployments, and handle database administration tasks, such as backups and security, for automated deployment. Register while space is available.
If you are aiming to optimise the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you will soon want to run scripts in parallel to save time. PowerShell does not demand that you run jobs one after the other; It has the means to launch actions whenever you wish and to obtain the results when you want them.
Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking in Davie, Florida on June 13, 2015. Admittance to this event is free, so register while space is available.
Learn how to use the TOP clause in conjunction with the UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE statements.
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When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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