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Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC)
What is DAC? DAC is short for Dedicated Administrator connection to SQL Server – it is used for troubleshoooting by those who are SAs in for exceptional situations where a regular login will not meet...
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Feeling safe…
Members of PASS recently received an email from president Thomas LaRock reminding us of the importance of proper etiquette and behavior at the summit. The email was prompted by a few unfortunate...
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Keep the Quorum…
As a follow up to the earlier post I had on harassment issues at PASS Summit – writing this to clarify more on the same. The community seems divided on if or not issues should be reported, if or not...
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TSQL-Paging through a resultset
I have been out of touch with latest features in TSQL for a while now. That mostly happened because my dba gigs in the past few years have not involved a lot of programming. To come upto speed with...
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TSQL Puzzle
Today’s TSQL post is an answer to a puzzle posted by Adam Machanic. I learnt something new via this puzzle today. The puzzle is as below – what would this query return? SELECT * FROM(VALUES(1),(2)) AS...
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Comparing data in two identical tables
Continuing with the recipes in SQL Server 2012 T-SQL recipes book – I was drawn to this puzzle that asked for how you would compare data in two identical tables using a single query. Now, if they...
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Self Portrait
Self pic Cartooning has been a fond hobby for me..if i had the time and energy I would have become a full time cartoonist..now then i like to engage the muse and experiment with it…sometime perhaps...
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SQL Server 2012 – Changes to set up
I plan to write a series of posts while learning more on SQL Server 2012. The changes to set up as I observed while installing SQL Server 2012 RC0 are : 1 Pre requisites include Powershell 2.0 and .NET...
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Tail of the log has not been backed up
This is the second post in my attempt to blog one little thing every day. Today I ran into this message when trying to restore a database over an existing database. I forgot to check the box that says...
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What it took to stump the optimizer
Sometime ago I was working with a Microsoft support technician on a ticket related to some database issues on SCOM. The technician wanted to run a stored procedure to clear out some of the backlog we...
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TSQL Tuesday #75 – PowerBI
This month’s TSQL Tuesday post is from one of my favorite people in the community – Jorge Segarra a.k.a. SQL Chicken. It is an invite to play with a new and shiny toy – Power BI. Now – like most...
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What it took to stump the optimizer
Sometime ago I was working with a Microsoft support technician on a ticket related to some database issues on SCOM. The technician wanted to run a stored procedure to clear out some of the backlog we...
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Basic Statistics with SQL – Introduction
I was a student of statistics in school and college. I didn’t get to use much of anything I learned at school, and this was considered one of them. But apparently with the boom in interest in data...
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TSQL Tuesday #081 – Sharpening something
This TSQL tuesday is hosted by my good friend Jason Brimhall – Jason has put forth a creative challenge – plan to do something, carry out that plan, and then write about the experience. He gave a two...
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Script for creating test data for odds ratio
Make sure you have a working version of SQL Server 2016. USE [master] GO /****** Object: Database [WorldHealth] ******/ CREATE DATABASE [WorldHealth] CONTAINMENT = NONE ON PRIMARY ( NAME =...
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11 years of PASS Summit
This is a story of my 11-year association with PASS, and the many ways it helped me grow as a person and in my career. And the many ways I saw other people grow. Summit #1 – 2006: Gaylord,TX: I was a...
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TSQL Tuesday #83 – The Stats update solution
TSQL Tuesday is a monthly blog part hosted by a different blogger every month – it was started by Adam Machanic. This week’s TSQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Mallon – the topic is ‘We’re dealing with...
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Sending Trevor love…
As some of you may be aware – fellow SQL family member, PASS Director, SQL Server MVP, founder of SQL Cruise and a good friend to many of us – Tim Ford – has a young son Trevor Ford who was recently...
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Days 1,2 and 3 of PASS Summit 2016
Today is Thursday, October 27th already. For some of us the summit begins monday – with precons and PASS Volunteering related meetings on Tuesday. For most other attendees the first day was Wednesday....
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TSQL-Paging through a resultset
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