How Do I Spot Identity Columns That Are About to Max Out?
Every so often, usually in the middle of the night or on a holiday weekend, an identity column will hit...
2010-10-05
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Adventures in SQL
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index?
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index? Yes. Really, I’m not kidding. Here, I’ll show you how.
First, let me...
2010-09-27
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A Little Help with Azure Please
Not long ago Microsoft announced a new product called Azure AKA “SQL Server in the Cloud”. I have to say...
2010-09-23
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What Did that Geek Just Say?
Working in a technical field has it’s ups and downs. One of the more common annoyances I run into is...
2010-09-21
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What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
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What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...
2010-09-14
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
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How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
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Quote of the Day
I do not usually post a quote of the day but since this is my own quote I decided to...
2010-09-13
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers