2016-02-15 (first published: 2016-01-29)
973 reads
Scripts
Transfer/copy data between servers using Remote Connection
Synch tables from Server 1 to Server 2 with out dropping tables in server 2 which do not exists in server 1.
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-01)
1,102 reads
2016-02-05 (first published: 2014-05-15)
3,311 reads
Index stats with key,included columns, size - all you can eat
Get total access,updates, rowlocks,pagelocks, stats date,rowcount for all tables or specific table by partition
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-22)
916 reads
Design : Find table with Identities with missing unique constraints
In an OLTP DB, other than an autogenerated Identity , there should be something else on the table which makes the non-identity data unique, as in, unique if you had to drop the ID column.
2016-02-03 (first published: 2016-01-22)
509 reads
Instance wide script to add user (the 4th way)
The script can be used to perform any task against all databases hosted on an instance. This is an example script that checks if a user is in a database if it is not then create the user and add it db_datareader role.
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-15)
825 reads
Design : Find and script out Missing Foreign Keys
Find missing Foreign Keys by name, only reference single column primary keys which are on top of an identity,also find where column names reference table with column name ='ID'.
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-21)
1,115 reads
Generic SQL backup with Azure support
Generic SQL backup with Azure support allowing several, handy backup options.
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
397 reads
Avoid Transaction Logs volume from filling
Script for preventing the volumes of the transaction logs from filling.
2016-01-27 (first published: 2014-05-13)
3,525 reads
Query Performance Report
The procedure created by this script rolls up the collected query execution statistics and groups them daily by the plan hash value.
2016-01-20 (first published: 2015-05-13)
5,459 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
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Forums
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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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