Where is my backup?
We recently added responsibility for ~80 more servers to our team. This means that my team-mates and I are working...
2012-12-19 (first published: 2012-12-12)
2,020 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
1,129 reads
Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
3,646 reads
Copying Connection Managers in SSIS
Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit...
2012-12-10
1,532 reads
Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement
I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
4,600 reads
CTEs beyond SELECT
The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...
2012-11-20
1,965 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...
2012-11-15
2,758 reads
2012-11-15
2,038 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...
2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)
2,767 reads
Time Trial sys.dm_exec_query_plan vs sys.dm_exec_sql_text
I’ve been working on a way to test performance usage on a server by database. I started out using sys.dm_exec_query_stats...
2012-11-12
1,697 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
By Brian Kelley
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He...
Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting...
Monday Monitor Tips: Tracking The Cost of Instances
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I’ve been asked in every operations situation is what...
Forums
Does SSRS Report with Stored Procedure execute SQL string?
I declare @Where based on the input parameter in the stored procedure. Set @SQL...
SQL Server Constrained Delegation
Hi, hoping someone can help. We're in the process of migrating to a new...
Question of the Day
Comparing Images
I am building an ETL process between these tables in SQL Server 2022 set to 160 compatibility level:
CREATE TABLE Image_Staging ( imageid INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT Image_StagingPK PRIMARY KEY , imagestatus TINYINT , imagebinary IMAGE); GO CREATE TABLE Images ( imageid INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ImagesPK PRIMARY KEY , imagestatus TINYINT , imagemodified DATETIME , imagebinary IMAGE); GOI want to run this query to check if the images already loaded exist. This will help me decide if I need to insert or update an image. What happens with this query?
SELECT i.imageid
FROM
dbo.Image_Staging AS ist
INNER JOIN dbo.Images AS i
ON ist.imagebinary = i.imagebinary; See possible answers