MSDB Job History Duration Conversion
Have you ever queried the msdb tables to get duration details about a particular job? I’ve had to do this...
2010-10-05
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Brian K. McDonald
SQL Saturday 49 Orlando - Delivery Mechanisms using SQL Server Reporting Services (mini)
It's official! I am presenting a mini session for SQL Saturday in Orlando. My topic and some details are below:
Delivery...
2010-10-05
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Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-01
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Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs
The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...
2010-09-01
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Using WITH NOLOCK
A colleague of mine and I were recently talking about some scripts that they had seen containing the WITH NOLOCK...
2010-09-01
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Dynamic SQL and Cached Query Plans
Over the many years that I’ve been dealing with SQL Server, I’ve always been told and read about how using...
2010-08-29
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Restarting SQL Server using a Batch Script
In a previous post, I showed you how one could Restart, Stop and Start the services for an instance of...
2010-08-29
12,669 reads
Restarting SQL Server using the GUI
Sometimes you may need to restart your instance of SQL Server. You should rarely do this on Production boxes, but...
2010-08-29
481 reads
Jax Code Camp - My Presentation and Projects
First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who attended my presentation today. It got off to a late start due...
2010-08-28
415 reads
How Many Columns In Table and Which Have Identity Columns
I recently had to find a way to look up how many columns were in a table and which of...
2010-08-20
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Blogs
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie...
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers