Supercharge Your SQL Server Scalar Functions By Switching To Table Value Functions
User defined functions in SQL server can cause all kinds of performance problems, there are however some tricks that are...
2019-01-18
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Gavin Draper
Introducing ChaosLoad
Scripted Simulation of SQL Server Loads
When blogging, presenting or testing an idea, one issue I constantly have is that my...
2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-11)
2,314 reads
SQL Server Removing Duplicates
I know, I know your data could never possibly have duplicates because obviously, you have all the constraints in place...
2019-01-09 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Waiter Waiter There's an Index in my Index
I’ve done a few posts on Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes before, what I’ve not however covered and something that is...
2019-01-09
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Profiler Is Dead, Long Live Extended Events
OK, so profiler isn’t actually dead, it has however been deprecated since 2012 and has had no new features since...
2019-01-07
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Indexing In Memory OLTP Tables
Indexing on In Memory OLTP tables is a little different from your traditional on-disk rowstore tables…
In Memory Differences…
There is no...
2018-12-24 (first published: 2018-12-04)
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Turbo Charged Staging\Caching Tables With In Memory OLTP
Since SQL 2012 some really awesome new technologies have been introduced into the engine that are massively underused. Everyone is...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-03)
2,255 reads
SQL Server Guide To NULL Handling
Every language handles null equality differently and understanding this is crucial as a misunderstanding here can lead to some quite...
2018-12-14 (first published: 2018-11-29)
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SQL Server Adventures In Reducing IO
In the interests of curiosity I’m going to take a query that runs a relatively simple aggregation over a large...
2018-12-10
290 reads
Live Query Stats of Running Queries
Since SQL Server 2014 SP1 we’ve had DMV’s that can support Live Query Statistics (Basically a query plan that gives...
2018-12-06 (first published: 2018-11-24)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers