SQL Server 2016 helps with Best Practices
In order for your SQL Server instance to run optimally, there are many SQL Server best practices that you need...
2017-08-03 (first published: 2017-07-19)
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
Combating SQL Injection
Target. Home Depot. NASA. U.S. Army. Anthem. Wall Street Journal. MarketWired. Ashley Madison. What do they all have in common?...
2017-06-21
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Weaning yourself off of SQL Profiler (Part 2)
In a prior post, I shared a script that will take a running trace and show you the XE events...
2017-05-17
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Weaning yourself off of SQL Profiler (Part 1)
In this brave, new world of Extended Events (XE, XEvents), I find myself with a mixture of scripts for troubleshooting...
2017-04-25 (first published: 2017-04-19)
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Automating DBCC DBTABLE – obtaining the disk Sector Size
I was recently reading this msdn article on Ghost Records, and it mentioned that you could get the number of...
2017-04-04 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Working with SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes
SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes
I’ve been working with running SQLSaturdays in the Richmond, VA area for several years now. It seems that every...
2017-03-09
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Identifying a row’s physical location
While you may not need to worry about the physical location of a row very often, every so often the...
2017-03-08
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Automating DBCC PAGE – Part 3 (Is a Clustered Index physically sorted on disk?)
In several of my last few blog posts, I’ve shared several methods of getting internal information from a database by...
2017-02-22
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T-SQL Tuesday #87 – Beware the Shiny New Toys
Today is yet another T-SQL Tuesday – the monthly blogging party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) to get everyone in the...
2017-02-14
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Automating DBCC PAGE, part 2 – determining object names on pages
In a prior blog post, I demonstrated how using DBCC PAGE can be automated by using the “WITH TABLERESULTS” option....
2017-01-18
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By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...