Across 1. These are specific criteria identified by the customer for each functional requirement. 2. Work in Progress. Down 1. A timeboxed task to go research a specific item with the deliverable being the results of the research. 2. Sequence of numbers used in Planning Poker. 3. A relative number describing how much work the team can get done over …
Today I learned that two of the sessions that I proposed for Vancouver DevTeach were accepted. This event taking place on December 2nd to 4th 2013 at the Vancouver Sheraton Wall Center Hotel. It will have 3 full days of main conference (Dec. 2-4). Don’t miss this Vancouver DevCon! The first session: Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server Steve Stedman …
The new Joes2Pros Academy has just launched. The Academy provides an interactive classroom experience that can be accessed on your own time as you need it. This site has high quality content, quizzes and exams. Students can interact with other students and instructors to get the best experience out of the Joes2Pros Academy. Courses offered in the following areas: SQL Server Administration SQL …
Click on the grid to enlarge, then print it. Find the following words in the grid up, down, left, right, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. ROWS RANGE PRECEDING FOLLOWING UNBOUNDED IIF CHOOSE OFFSET FETCH FORMAT CONCAT SEQUENCE PARSE TRYPARSE TRYCONVERT THROW LEAD LAG FIRSTVALUE LASTVALUE PERCENTRANK CUMEDIST PERCENTILEDISC PERCENTILECONT NOTE: some of these terms normally have an underscore in …
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The following DBCC commands are all hidden in the word search. Be aware, some of the DBCC commands are undocumented. CACHESTATS CHECKCATALOG CHECKCONSTRAINTS CHECKDB CHECKFILEGROUP CHECKIDENT CLEANTABLE DROPCLEANBUFFERS FLUSHPROCINDB FREE FREEPROCCACHE FREESESSIONCACHE FREESYSTEMCACHE INDEXDEFRAG OPENTRAN OUTPUTBUFFER PAGE PROCCACHE SHOWCONTIG SHRINKDATABASE TRACEON TRACESTATUS UNPINTABLE UPDATEUSAGE USEROPTIONS END OF PUZZLE ————————- See also: For more information on DBCC Commands: DBCC CheckAlloc DBCC …
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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 OPENXML OPTION OVER PIVOT PRIMARY PROCEDURE RAISERROR RECONFIGURE REPLICATION RESTORE RETURN RIGHT ROLLBACK ROWCOUNT SELECT SET STATISTICS THEN TRAN TRANSACTION …
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Across 2. Management Studio 5. The database that is used as a template when creating a new database 6. Using a backup 7. Reporting Services 9. An index that rearranges the structure of a table 12. The underlying structure of an index 13. Common Table Expression 20. Making queries run faster 21. An index that doesn’t change the structure of …
This is my 250th blog post at Steve Stedman.com. Many of the post over the last year have been focused on Common Table Expression topics as I finished my CTE Book, however with last month being DBCC Command Month here there were many posts completely unrelated to CTEs. Another category that accounts for many of the posts is the Database …
As the month of May comes to an end so does DBCC command month at SteveStedman.com. I didn’t cover all the DBCC Commands this month, but here is what I did have time to cover: May 1st – DBCC CheckAlloc May 2nd – DBCC CheckCatalog May 3rd – DBCC CheckConstraints May 4th – DBCC CheckDB May 5th – DBCC CheckFilegroup May 6th – DBCC CheckIdent May …
Being day 27 of the DBCC Command month at SteveStedman.com, today’s featured DBCC Command is DBCC SQLPERF. Description: DBCC SQLPERF is used to do a couple different things. Show a list of all the wait stats on your SQL Server. Show a list of the transaction log and the space used in the transaction log. Clear the wait stats. Clear …