oh, I did already - about 20 questions 🙂

I hope, this will be not the next Question of the Day, but sometimes you have the value not in a binary column but in a VARCHAR (e.g. because you...

I used this behavior

• while setting a column to the MIN/MAX() result of a subquery, where I needed this value for further use in a variable too
• setting a column...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by  Thomas Franz.

We can't use it either. We have an generic file loader, that searchs in the directories for new files and calls the fitting package to load the file. The (sub)package...

Counterquestion: why should it be forbitten? It does not write anything to the log, changes no data ...

I don't know how it is realized internal, but theoretical an USE [db]...

For the sake of completeness, CHOOSE() ignores errors too, until you access this value:

-- works well
DECLARE @i INT = 4;
SELECT CHOOSE(@i, 10,20,30,3.14,50,'Test', 1/0)
GO
-- returns division by zero...

When disk I/O is no longer a problem, it comes to CPU and network I/O... To reduce the CPU load (and disk I/O) you could e.g. tune your queries /...

Even after several minutes of thinking, I can't really anything I know about indexing flag as only nice-to-have. Ok, maybe you could just skip the whole in-memory-table stuff with its...

theoretical you could have added one more file to the filegroup and used

DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'<original file>' , EMPTYFILE)

to move all data into the new files (will be evenly distributed in...

When your 500 GB database would use multiple filegroups (and the bigger tables are ideally partitioned into different FGs too), then you would be able to do a partial restore...

I find the answers a little bit misleading. If a column is part of another index, FK or constraint, it just can't be dropped (without dropping / changing the index,...

CHECKSUM(*) or BINARY_CHECKSUM(*) could be an option but this needs all columns in the same order and (sometimes) equal data type.

Beside of this the function may work or a good...

Forbit them to create any table in the primary filegroup, than this...

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by  Thomas Franz.

Nice article.

My main problem with the fill factor is, that I can't set it per partition. So I have either to waste a lot of space in my old, cold...

@Carlo: so the dot in SELECT 1.test is not a whitespace or a dot as between filename and extension, but a simple decimal separator without a following decimal number as...