Track SQL Server Database Recovery Progress – ErrorLog
This question has come up many times how to capture the SQL Server Database Recovery Progress or Total time take to recover a database. It will help to plan...
The...
2019-05-04
Administration
Don’t Forget RoboCopy
On occasion you have to find means to get around an issue. John Morehouse shows why Robocopy can be a useful tool in testing circumstances.
2019-05-03
Find-and-Replace for SQL Server Agent Jobs
Once in a while you might need to make common changes to a lot of SQL Server Agent Jobs.
2019-05-03
Is Your Availability Group ‘REALLY’ Ready To Failover?
You know what it’s like, you need to fail your AG over but is it safe to fail over? Even if your AG says it is, there are other thing to consider...
2019-05-03
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Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Heap Tables
Achieving minimal logging with INSERT...SELECT can be a complicated business.
2019-05-02
No, This is not a Bug in T-SQL
Gail Shaw keeps seeing this in all sorts of places. People getting an unexpected result when working with a subquery, typically an IN subquery, and assuming that they’ve found...
2019-05-02
Generate script to recreate indexes
For me, this particular code to generate a script to recreate indexes has more practical use in a replication environment.
For example, the default replication setting is to exclude the...
The...
2019-04-26
Slow inserts across a linked server?
Linked Servers offer a great way to connect two SQL Servers together, allowing remote querying and DML operations. Frequently, this is used to copy data from production to reporting....
2019-04-25
Proposed SQL Server defaults: optimize for ad hoc workloads
A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set cost threshold for parallelism to 50 Disable lightweight pooling...
2019-04-24
Enable a Named Instance to Connect on 1433
My default setup for a few years is to only use named instances, usually with a standard SQL2014 or SQL 2016 as the name of the instance. Recently, I...
The...
2019-04-22
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes
By Steve Jones
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes...
Using Cron in Postgres Flex
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
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Parse XML data from SQL table using temp tables and variables
Hello SSC, Happy Friday! I have to optimize a process that uses dynamic SQL...
50 Years of Microsoft
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Question of the Day
Multiple Collations
Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?
... WHERE ColumnA = ( 'abc' COLLATE French_CI_AS) COLLATE French_CS_AS ...See possible answers