Generating a restore script
In order to speed up our backups on a large database our team decided to stripe the backup files. In...
2014-08-25 (first published: 2014-08-18)
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Kenneth Fisher
The amazing never shrinking heap
This is a quick demo of a little “trick” with heaps I’ve known about for a couple of years. However...
2014-08-25
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Two years!
Two years ago today I began my blog with a post about the DEFAULT keyword. I set out with the...
2014-08-20
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More than sp_help
If you have worked with SQL Server for very long you have probably run across the extremely useful system function...
2014-08-14
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Deny vs Revoke
Quick quiz. Which of these two commands is the opposite of GRANT?
DENYREVOKE
Well lets start with some definitions
GRANT – Grants permissions on...
2014-08-12 (first published: 2014-08-04)
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T-SQL Tuesday #57: SQL Family
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is SQL Family and is brought to us by Jeffrey Verheul (b/t). It’s an amazing...
2014-08-12
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The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.
Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes...
2014-08-07 (first published: 2014-07-30)
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SchemaBinding – What & Why
What
When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying tables...
2014-08-06
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What is ANSI_NULLS and why will I be glad when it finally goes away?
Recently I wrote about what it means that a value is NULL. Right at the beginning I mentioned ANSI_NULLS and...
2014-08-04 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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Spackle: Making sure you can connect to the DAC
The DAC is an important tool and several things can go wrong when trying to connect to it.
2014-07-31
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Reading
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design
I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from...
My 2024 in Data: Speaking
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Forums
Need ADF pipeline suggestion to copy 1 million files
I have an ADF pipeline that copies Files from source to destination. Both Source...
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