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This is a very interesting error happened in one of my clients’ databases. Their database has been running for at...
2013-04-30
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SQL Saturday #198 Feb 16, 2013
SQL Saturday 198, http://www.sqlsaturday.com/198/ ; is coming to Vancouver Feb 16 this year. As of now, 56 sessions are collected from...
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NULL Values Impact the Performance of MAX() and MIN()
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Inserted and Deleted are One Table?
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2012-10-17
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Update with UPDLOCK
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2012-10-10
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Have You Seen This Error?
location: AppendOnlyVerStoreMgr.cpp:776
Expression: 0
SPID: 64
Process ID: 4912
Description: Cannot locate version record and page is not allocated. Status = 3
Msg 3624, Level 20,...
2012-09-10
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Get Dependent Databases, Tables, Columns…
Quite often people need to write a new T-SQL application to replace an existing one for various reasons. For instance,...
2012-07-06 (first published: 2012-06-29)
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Locking Behavior – Foreign Keys
With Snapshot (read committed snapshot and snapshot isolation level) enabled, when data reading on a table takes place, if any...
2012-06-26
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Bug? Can’t Pass TVP to SQL Function Twice
I run into a bug recently with SQL Server 2012. I believe this exists in SQL Server 2008 as well....
2012-06-20
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DBCC WritePage
DBCC WritePage is a dangerous undocumented DBCC command. It’s useful in your sandbox to change data, crash objects, and do...
2011-11-23
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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