This months TSQL Tuesday subject is a shout out and high-five to those people who have inspired or made a contribution to my DBA life. So here goes: Before I started my career as a Database Administrator I worked in the motor trade for approx 12 years , I worked with some great people and gathered... Continue Reading →
Hi Folks, I’m the new guy that my two colleagues are still trying to convince to write my first blog post and as they like to put it I’m still scared or have stage fright. My name’s Chris and I’m the latest DBA to go undercover and investigate all things SQL.... Continue Reading →
So this month's T-SQL Tuesday subject is a shout out and high-five to those people who have inspired or made a contribution to my DBA life. Well where do I start? Thinking back on my career there are just so many people that have given me a push here and a nudge there without which I... Continue Reading →
Recently I've been thinking about Python and whether it can be useful to the DBA as well as the data scientist. One good use that I have found for it is to copy logins from one server to another. There are plenty of times when you might want to copy your SQL logins (including the... Continue Reading →
SQL Server tracks untrusted Foreign keys in sys.Foreign keys with a column called is_not_trusted, there may be a number of reasons why a Foreign key may have become untrusted below are a couple of examples: Foreign key was disabled using the 'NOCHECK' option then re-enabled using 'CHECK' (not to be confused with 'WITH CHECK') Foreign key was... Continue Reading →
SQL Server's integration of Python has been heavily marketed towards the machine learning and BI guys, but does it offer anything for the DBA? All the attention has been on machine learning, so much so that for a while I didn't pay it any attention at all, but then I got thinking to myself. DBAs... Continue Reading →
I'm pretty sure that we've all found ourselves in the situation where we've run an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE script and it seems to be taking an age to run. We've done all the usual checks, there's no blocking going on, things are happening but it just seems to be taking an age to finish. ... Continue Reading →
Routine maintenance rolls around and it's time to failover your AG's to new Primary's to allow for patching and restarts... the weapon of choice will be the SSMS Failover wizard - and why not its does the job nicely and give us some nice visuals as it progresses through each failover. On this... Continue Reading →
It wasn't until recently that i paid attention to truncation during concatenation, but that's because whenever I used concatenation before it was only using short data lengths so I didn't see the effects of truncation. When I first noticed that truncation can occur I was building a Huge piece of dynamic SQL , Don't... Continue Reading →
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