T-SQL Tuesday – Non-SQL Server Technologies
So, this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is to think about a non-SQL Server technology that we want to learn.
For me,...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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SQL Undercover
Signing Stored Procedures That Access Multiple Databases
A while back I wrote a post, Digitally Signing a Stored Procedure To Allow It To Run With Elevated Permissions
Recently Manish...
2018-11-08 (first published: 2018-10-30)
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Identifying delays between SQL calls using SQL profiler
One of the common goto methods for query specific slowness which can be replicated via an application can be to...
2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-24)
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A Play Around With Table Variable Deferred Compilation in SQL 2019
Table variables, they’re nasty, dirty little things that perform about as well as a Robin Reliant in a crosswind, right? ...
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-16)
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Inspector V1.2 now available
It has been long overdue but finally V1.2 is now available on GitHub.
V1.2 brings a lot of changes, We put...
2018-10-10
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Inspector V1.2 revised installation guide
Pre-requisites:
SQL 2012 or higher
SQL Server Agent
A database to store the the data collected by the agent jobs (this can be...
2018-10-10
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The SQL Agents’ view of SQL Server
I recently came across a really odd issue with the SQL Agent, there were two agent jobs attached to one...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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sp_translate, A Universal Translator in SQL Server. Just One Example Of How Powerful the Python/SQL Partnership Can Be.
In my recent post, Installing External Modules into SQL Server’s Python I had a look at just how simple it is to...
2018-09-18
526 reads
TSQL Tuesday #106: Triggers and the Spiral To Oblivion
It’s the second Tuesday of the month which must mean only one thing…
We’re all skint and payday feels like a...
2018-09-11
264 reads
Podcast Audio Now On SoundCloud
For those of you who don’t have time to watch the videos, the audio stream of our webcasts are now...
2018-09-05
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Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
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...
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers