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Very rarely there is a need to force an execution plan and even more rarely we should be doing it....

2018-07-30 (first published: 2018-07-20)

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Send SMS from SQL Server

We have configured email alerts in our environment. Recently I had requirement of sending SMS for critical alerts on production...

2014-03-31

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There is a way by which we can merge the .trc and .blg files to get a great view as...

2013-10-17 (first published: 2013-10-09)

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INTRODUCTION
Statistics contain information about the data. How the data is distributed inside the table. They are representation of a table....

2013-09-29

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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...

Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...

I am off to Live 360 today, on my last trip of the year....

i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...

Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...

What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?

select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';