Monday, December 30, 2019

Top 10 posts from the last decade

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As we finish the tumultuous 2010s and are ready for the roaring 2020s, I decided to take a quick look at the ten most viewed posts from th...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

SQLSTATE 4200 Error 666 and what to do.

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This morning I was greeted by the following message from a job email The maximum system-generated unique value for a duplicate group wa...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Can adding an index make a non SARGable query SARGable?

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This question came up the other day from a co-worker, he said he couldn't change a query but was there a way of making the same query p...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

How to count NULLS without using IS NULL in a WHERE clause

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This came up the other day, someone wanted to know the percentage of NULL values in a column Then I said "I bet you I can run that ...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

How to check if an Extended Event session exists before dropping it

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Are you still running profiler or have you transferred to using Extended Events? I use Extended Events almost exclusively now because it&#...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

How to improve your tech skills

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Today we are going to look at how to improve your tech skills. This really is a continuation of the  Stay relevant and marketable  post fro...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Some numbers that you will know by heart if you have been working with SQL Server for a while

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This is just a quick and fun post. I was troubleshooting a deadlock the other day and it got me thinking.... I know the number 1205 by h...
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Monday, March 18, 2019

Stay relevant and marketable

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It has been a while since I wrote some of my best practices posts. I decided to revisit these posts again to see if anything has changed...