As a DBA, how do I offload some of my work?
I don’t have time for this “I am a DBA, I am busy, too busy. Developers keep pushing changes to production without me reviewing the code, and now I...
2019-06-13
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Ed Elliott's Sql Developer Blog
As a DBA, how do I offload some of my work?
I don't have time for this “I am a DBA, I am busy, too busy. Developers keep pushing changes to production without me reviewing the code, and now I...
2019-06-13
What is the key to automated database deployments?
In my blog post here https://the.agilesql.club/blogs/ed-elliott/2019-06-10/steps-to-automated-database-deployments I described the steps you need to go through so you can build up your confidence that you are capable of deploying databases...
2019-06-11
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What is the key to automated database deployments?
In my blog post here https://the.agilesql.club/2019/06/what-steps-are-there-to-move-to-safe-automated-database-deployments/ I described the steps you need to go through so you can build up your confidence that you are capable of deploying databases...
2019-06-11
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What steps are there to move to safe automated database deployments?
Database deployments are scary, you have all this data and if you drop the wrong table, run the wrong delete statement or have an error in a stored procedure...
2019-06-10
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What steps are there to move to safe automated database deployments?
Database deployments are scary, you have all this data and if you drop the wrong table, run the wrong delete statement or have an error in a stored procedure...
2019-06-10
How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
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How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
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Why is my pivot query not returning any data? How to debug a PIVOT query
If you have a PIVOT query and it isn’t returning the data you expect, what can you do to troubleshoot it? The thing to do is to break it...
2019-05-21
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Why is my pivot query not returning any data? How to debug a PIVOT query
If you have a PIVOT query and it isn't returning the data you expect, what can you do to troubleshoot it? The thing to do is to break it...
2019-05-21
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Function Defaults
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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