SQL Server Worker Thread Alert
We decided to build a quick worker thread alert so we know when we are near the limits.
2019-05-02
1,615 reads
Scripts
Add working days but avoid holidays
A function to add or subtract working days taking into account weekends and using a table of non-working days.
2019-05-01
1,001 reads
2019-04-30
1,875 reads
Add working days but avoid holidays
A function to add or subtract working days taking into account weekends and using a table of non-working days.
2019-04-25 (first published: 2019-04-18)
738 reads
SQL Server System Audit Report
SQL Server System Audit Report Rudy Panigas, 2018-05-25 (first published: 2016-02-02) With every technology, security is in the forefront of the minds of professionals around the world. Ensuring that your SQL Server is secure is the job of every Database Administrator (DBA). The DBA(s) needs to configure the system to minimize the “attack surface” (reducing […]
2019-04-18
4,149 reads
2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-12)
11,748 reads
Function to convert UserAccountControl number to details text
Function that converts AD UserAccountControl number to details text
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-12)
556 reads
DigitsOnlyEE and AlphaNumericOnly
A nasty fast way to remove non-numeric and non-alphanumeric characters from a string
2019-03-15 (first published: 2016-05-17)
3,364 reads
2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-20)
971 reads
Disable or rebuild all nonclustered indexes on a table
Can be useful when inserting a lot of data into a table.
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-14)
5,379 reads
Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
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Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
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Forums
Server-Level Table sizes
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers