Using All Your Tools
Steve looks at a number of tools that you should spend time learning and building a level of comfort that enables you to use them in your daily work.
2019-12-07
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Tools for development
2019-11-18
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SQL SERVER – Maximizing Query Execution Plans On Screen – A Quick Tip
My most of the Comprehensive Database Performance ...
2019-05-23
A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt
I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...
The...
2019-05-13
SQL SERVER – How Do I Evaluate Monitoring Tools?
Today, I am going to talk about the 3 important properties which I look for in all the SQL Server Performance monitoring tools.
First appeared on SQL SERVER – How...
2019-05-08
Embed Azure Data Studio Notebooks in your website
Notebooks are a functionality available in Azure Data Studio, that allows you to create and share documents that may contain text, code, images, and query results. These documents are...
The...
2019-05-07
Launching ADS from SSMS
If you haven’t heard, SSMS v18 went GA (Generally Availability) recently. You can download it from Microsoft, though if you have a preview version, you do need to uninstall...
The...
2019-05-06
SSMS v18 and Azure Data Studio: The Golden Age of SQL Server Tooling
Yesterday, SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 shipped. Here’s the official announcement, the download page, and the release notes. Yes, it’s still free, and yes, they’re still adding features. Yes,...
2019-04-25
AutoRecover in SSMS
Periodically there is a crash, power surge, or sudden reboot of your computer. Of course, you had SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) open and you were working on something important. That seems to be the only time there is a crash/reboot. You can lose work that that was open in SSMS but has not saved.
2019-04-12
Azure Data Studio Notebooks: GitHub Issues
There are a couple of Azure Data Studio GitHub issues near and dear to my heart that I’d like to point out in the hopes that it’ll raise their...
2019-04-10
Blogs
AI Step 1
By Vinay Thakur
As this is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) World, things are changing. We can see that...
Beginner’s Guide: Building a Dockerized Todo App with React, Chakra UI, and Rust for Backend
In a containerized app, React and Chakra UI provide a robust and accessible user...
A New Word: Nachlophobia
By Steve Jones
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty...
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identify consecutive records greater than 1
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Call dynamic sql storedprocedure from SSIS execute sql task
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Migrating database with many orphan users.
I am currently upgrading a very old database running SQL Server 2008 to SQL...
Question of the Day
The Funny SELECTs
What is returned from this query?
SELECT
( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate >= '01/01/2011' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2011
, ( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate >= '01/01/2012' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2012
, ( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate >= '01/01/2013' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2013; See possible answers