The following SQL Server keywords are hidden in the word search puzzle. Find them all! ALTER BETWEEN CLUSTERED COLUMN COMMIT CREATE DATABASE DEFAULT ELSE END EXECUTE EXIT FOR FUNCTION GRANT IDENTITY INSERT KEY NOCHECK NONCLUSTERED NULL OFFSETS OPENDATASOURCE OPENQUERY OPENROWSET …

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  Related Common Table Expression Links Sample Database for Common Table Expressions Writing Your First Common Table Expression with SQL Server Video: Writing Your First CTE with SQL Server Common Table Expressions – Terminating the Previous Statement CTE Scope Introduction …

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Today marks the 1000th download of the Database Health Reports in the last 11 months since Beta 1 was released. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to recap on the history of the database health report application. First …

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To start with for Transparent Data Encyrption (TDE) we will need to be using Enterprise (or Developer) edition of SQL Server 2014. I am using SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition CTP1, which is the early release of SQL Server 2014. …

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As part of my contribution back to the SQL Server community I am adding a new feature into the free Database Health Reports application. I am currently working on adding a new feature into the Database Health Reports to analyze T-SQL Technical Debt. If …

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