Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysindexes
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-01 (first published: 2012-10-29)
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #4
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-29
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Reblog: October 19 to October 25
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-26
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PASS 2012 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go
I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really...
2012-10-25
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Discovering Binary Pages In Sys.Indexes
In a previous post, we looked at how to take the the binary page values in sysindexes and convert the...
2012-10-24
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Decoding first, root, and FirstIAM in Sysindexes
Have you ever looked at the first, root, and FirstIAM columns in sysindexes and wondered…
“What do these values mean?”
Recently, I...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-23)
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What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes?
In my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables, I’ve been going through the compatibility views in SQL Server...
2012-10-22
2,585 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #3
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-22
703 reads
Ask The Unicorn: SQL Saturday Registration Is Closed
Right before the last Minnesota SQL Saturday, I was asked a few questions about learning about SQL Server which led...
2012-10-20
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Reblog: October 12 to October 18
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-19
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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