Re-blog – January 6 – January 12
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-01-13
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Blog Posts
Bloopers from Dec 2012
The raw ones from podcasts in late Nov and Dec 2011.
Dec 2011 Bloopers
Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor, syndicated
2012-01-12
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Database Mirroring From SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU3
I recently ran into a production instance of SQL Server 2005 SP2 (Build 3042) that is running in a two...
2012-01-12
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DBAs@Midnight 6 week roundup
We’ve been awfully busy these last few weeks, what with holidays and work and whatnot. But that hasn’t stopped us...
2012-01-12
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Fragmented Index – Rebuild or Reorganize ?
Introduction
In past, many times I have written on Fragmentation of Indexes and how to Defrag them. You can find some...
2012-01-12
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Missing Indexes
SQL Server has means built into it to track possible missing indexes. This used to be found through the use of the Index Tuning Wizard. The process has improved...
2012-01-12
Scaling SQL Server Presentation from SQLSaturday #104 Precon
On Friday, January 6, 2012, I got the opportunity to present an expanded version of my “Scaling SQL Server” presentation...
2012-01-12
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SQL Server – Logical Disk Read Bytes/sec and disk io
In the SAN environment , the Logical Disk Performance objects counters monitor the logical partitions.
I use the Logical Disk Read Bytes/sec ...
2012-01-12
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SSRS - Embedded Custom Code
When developing reports in Reporting Services you will often use the built-in
expression language to make report data and formatting...
2012-01-12 (first published: 2012-01-05)
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Check Version of SharePoint 2010 Currently Installed
There are several ways to check the version of SharePoint 2010 currently installed in your environment. That about sums up...
2012-01-11
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Blogs
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
Counting Groups with Window Functions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on...
The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan – When You’ve Managed to Confuse SQL With a Crazy IN Clause.
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an...
Forums
How to merge two tables with unlike fields
How to merge two tables with unlike fields. I have two table with one...
Visual Studio 22 / SSIS Project / (Project) Connection problem
Hello, First of all, I find it odd/annoying that I can't exclude a Project...
How to determine if a DB is currently being used
Hi - I'm looking for advice regarding the best & quickest way to establish...
Question of the Day
The LAGging NULL
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers