Using Templates
Templates are one of those really handy tools that most DBAs I know of have either never heard of or...
2013-03-18
1,160 reads
SQLStudies
The STUFF function
While I was at the 2011 Pass Summit I was given the following piece of code to create a comma...
2013-03-14
897 reads
What is mssqlsystemresource?
If you are lucky you’ve never seen an error along the lines of:
The SELECT permission was denied on the object...
2013-03-04
999 reads
Script to clean up “Windows” logins no longer in AD
I was scanning http://dba.stackexchange.com and ran across the following question:
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31478/sql-server-script-to-delete-accounts-no-longer-in-active-directory
Basically the OP wanted to know how to get rid of...
2013-03-12 (first published: 2013-03-01)
4,159 reads
Insert multiple values sets into a table in one command
The INSERT command has two distinct ways to load data into a table.
INSERT INTO Table (field1, field2) VALUES ('string1','string2')And
INSERT INTO...
2013-02-28
3,419 reads
DROP and CREATE vs ALTER
When writing a script to change a piece of code, say a stored procedure or view, there are 3 basic...
2013-03-05 (first published: 2013-02-25)
5,065 reads
Multiple instances, single query window
Anyone who has been reading my blog for a while should realize that several divisions in my company have been...
2013-02-18
1,019 reads
Something to watch out for when using sp_rename on Stored Procedures, Functions and Views
For those who don’t know, the stored procedure sp_rename allows you to change the name of a user-created object. Basically...
2013-02-11
2,345 reads
EXECUTE, not required, but advisable.
The other day one of the developers I work with gave me a script similar to this:
BEGIN TRAN
sp_rename 'tablename.columnname', 'newcolumnname'
COMMITHe...
2013-02-06
772 reads
Duplicate rows in a table
I recently got the following email:
“I just keyed in two rows into a table with all identical column values. How...
2013-02-11 (first published: 2013-02-04)
3,259 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers