Want to be more comfortable with the Extended Events Viewer?
I’ll admit, I’m a lot more comfortable with tracing and the profiler than I am with EE (extended events) and ... Continue reading
2019-10-23
455 reads
Kenneth Fisher
#PowershellBasics: The Windows Powershell icon in the task bar also lets you run Powershell ISE.
I don’t know about you, but I like having the tools that I’m likely to use on my taskbar. That ... Continue reading
2019-10-14
81 reads
SQL Homework – October 2019 – Code review (self and peer)
Every database person I’ve ever met writes at least some code at some point in their career. That code might ... Continue reading
2019-10-14 (first published: 2019-10-02)
521 reads
Using 3rd party tools. T-SQL Tuesday #119
It’s that time again! Alex Yates (b/t) has asked us to discuss a time in tech when we’ve changed our ... Continue reading
2019-10-11 (first published: 2019-10-08)
451 reads
#PowershellBasics: Powershell vs Powershell Core
I’m taking a Powershell class this week and I have to say the teacher is one of the best I’ve ... Continue reading
2019-10-10
346 reads
Debugging techniques (focusing on T-SQL)
tl;dr; Add PRINT and/or SELECT statements. Comment/uncomment out pieces of code to isolate problems. Change INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements to SELECTs. Disclaimer: ... Continue reading
2019-10-07 (first published: 2019-09-23)
832 reads
DBA Myths: CHECKDB runs on startup.
If you look at your error log you’ll (hopefully) see entries like this shortly after the instance startup: CHECKDB for ... Continue reading
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-16)
577 reads
2019-09-30
27 reads
Blogging and coding best practices
I had a discussion a while back, I think it was with Grant Fritchey (b/t) but I just can’t remember. ... Continue reading
2019-09-25
18 reads
DMV with SQL Server Service info (including the service accounts)
I recently found this DMV and couldn’t wait to share. sys.dm_server_services What’s so great about it? For each service for ... Continue reading
2019-09-23 (first published: 2019-09-12)
970 reads
Blogs
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
By Steve Jones
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...
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...
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