I recently had the opportunity to talk a little PostgreSQL with the Salt Lake City PostgreSQL Meetup group (thank you for having me by the way). Great bunch of people who were really engaged and asked a lot of questions. On the way out of the event, I was chatting with one person (who had […]
A look at window functions in SQL and how they can be used to query data without the restrictions of a GROUP BY.
Older technology can introduce security issues, along with performance ones. Keeping your systems somewhat up to date is important for security.
This article dives into a fun (and interesting!) strategy for widening fixed-width columns in SQL Server, to reduce downtime, risk, and runtime at the time when a column’s data type needs to be changed.
Passwords are essential and also a problem in many organizations. Guidance has changed over the years and Steve has a few thoughts on what's recommended today.
A list of all builds for SQL Server 2016. Updated with CU2 for SP2 and CU10 for SP1.
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
Our major goal in terms of log maintenance for all databases under our care is to optimize for write performance, in order to support all activities that require SQL Server to write to the log, including data modifications, data loads, index rebuilds, and so on. However, it's also important to keep an eye on possible log fragmentation, which, as described previously, can affect the performance of processes that need to read the log, such as log backups and the crash recovery process.
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers