Want to be able to read your database between restores?
When restoring a database there are times when it would nice to restore a bit, check what’s been restored so...
2016-07-20
772 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Is the network your last performance bottleneck?
Let’s say your company relies on the cloud for its servers (or maybe not, on premise networks have more options...
2016-07-18
439 reads
Altering a column in a large table: A case study
Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to...
2016-07-14
1,021 reads
Default database file sizes
It’s Chris Yates (b/t) birthday! (I think he just tured 19.) And in honor of his birthday we are writing...
2016-07-12
752 reads
Finding, disabling and enabling foreign keys
Foreign keys are a classic method of enforcing RI (Referential Integrity). Unfortunately though, they can get in the way if...
2016-07-11 (first published: 2016-06-29)
1,957 reads
Zilch to Speaker: 2016 Summit Abstract Reviews
Steve Jones (b/t) has been asking people to post their Pass Summit submissions and the reviews that came back, along...
2016-07-07
446 reads
Perfectly Placed Parentheses
Like many other programming languages T-SQL uses parentheses () for a number of tasks. To help determine precedence, function calls etc....
2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-06-27)
2,837 reads
Phantom SSIS Changes
That SSIS change just won’t stick! There is a new business requirement, so now you have to change an existing...
2016-07-05
994 reads
Minimizing Cloud cost
The cloud can be expensive. I had this hammered home the other day by a simple mistake. I’m currently working...
2016-06-27 (first published: 2016-06-20)
1,474 reads
Database snapshots
This feature is Enterprise only which can limit who it is useful to, but I find the whole concept fascinating....
2016-06-22
508 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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