Code examples : T-SQL Tuesday #143
It’s TSQL Tuesday! John Armando McCormack (blog|twitter) is our host this month and he’d like us to share some of ... Continue reading
2021-10-12
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Kenneth Fisher
Audit Columns
One of the easiest ways to collect information about table activity is to add a series of audit columns to ... Continue reading
2021-10-11 (first published: 2021-09-28)
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Dealing with foreign keys when deleting rows.
Deleting rows from a table is a pretty simple task right? Not always. Foreign keys, while providing a ton of ... Continue reading
2021-10-07
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SQL Homework – October 2021 – What can you tell me about the server your SQL Server instance is on?
Here are some really common questions I get: How many CPUs does ServerA have? How much memory does ServerA have? ... Continue reading
2021-10-05
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#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to run a query or a .sql ... Continue reading
2021-10-04 (first published: 2021-09-21)
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#PowershellBasics: Running a .sql script file.
As with all programming tasks there are a number of ways to do something, this is just one that I ... Continue reading
2021-09-27 (first published: 2021-09-16)
541 reads
Database Sizes
Quick query today. I needed a list of database sizes so came up with this: Nothing exciting, but I figure ... Continue reading
2021-09-22 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Rule 1: Be kind, be polite.
In my house, this is rule one. Sometimes it’s my wife or I reminding our kids, sometimes it’s them reminding ... Continue reading
2021-09-17 (first published: 2021-08-31)
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SQL Homework – September 2021 – How good is your recovery plan?
Last month I had you create a security standards document. This month we are going to document our recovery plan. ... Continue reading
2021-09-15 (first published: 2021-09-02)
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The sysname datatype defaults to not NULL.
The other day I was creating a table to store some metadata. Since the metadata I was collecting (sys.databases.name for ... Continue reading
2021-09-10 (first published: 2021-08-26)
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Function Defaults
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Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers