T-SQL Tuesday #45 – Who’s Auditing My SSIS Packages?
It’s time once again for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday #45 is...
2013-08-13
862 reads
Robert Davis
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DBCC CHECKDB … Terminated Abnormally Due to Error State 6
I recently encountered a DBCC CHECKDB failure with a fairly non-specific failure message. The error message said it terminated abnormally...
2013-07-24
7,208 reads
Looking for Buried Treasure in the Transaction Log
Lately, I’ve been finding more and more reasons to look in the transaction log for investigative purposes. Questions come up...
2013-05-27
1,194 reads
Bug: sys.dm_db_session_space_usage Reporting Extremely High Tempdb Allocations
A little more than a year ago while working at Idera, I was consulted on reports from a few clients...
2013-05-21
1,210 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #41 – Presenting Comes Full Circle and I Love It!
It’s time for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is one of the...
2013-04-09
1,147 reads
Day 31 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Backup and Restore of the Resource Database
It has been a long journey to the final day my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, but we have...
2013-03-28 (first published: 2013-03-25)
2,410 reads
Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s...
2013-03-27
3,262 reads
Day 30 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery (T-SQL Tuesday #40): Using Partial Availability and Initialize from Backup to Replicate a Partial Database
It’s been a tough and long road to 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. It’s been very difficult coming up with...
2013-03-12
1,337 reads
The Saddest Thing I Ever Heard a Manager Say
I am currently going through the process of looking for a new opportunity for my career. I’m going through the...
2013-03-08 (first published: 2013-03-01)
6,029 reads
Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
1,338 reads
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
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