Since the corruption challenge completed yesterday, I have had several request asking how I created the corrupt database. So here is the script that I used to create the Database Corruption Challenge 1. First the initial setup. Most of this …
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Welcome to the DataBase Corruption Challenge, this is an about weekly blog challenge where I will post a corrupt SQL Server database with some details on what happened to it. If at this point you are already a bit irked …
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>>> Try our online JOIN Types Course Today! As I have been working on the SQL Server JOIN Types poster, I have received several questions around the difference between a CROSS JOIN, and a FULL OUTER JOIN. After looking at …
Here is a quick video tutorial on how to use the T-SQL CASE function on SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 0r newer. This was originally part of my free SQL query training for the 70-461 certification exam. Here is the …
Here is a short video tutorial that shows how to use the CHOOSE function in T-SQL on SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 or Newer. This was originally part of my free SQL query training for the 70-461 certification exam. Here …
Here is a quick video tutorial on how to use the IIF function on SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014 0r newer. This was originally part of my free SQL query training for the 70-461 certification exam. Here is the sample …
Using the GO commend in TSQL to run a batch of code multiple times is something that I commonly do in demo’s and training’s. What amazes me is how many people after the training will tell me that they didn’t know …
NTILE is a SQL Server function that can be called in a TSQL Query. This is part of the free sql query training to prepare for the Microsoft 70-461 queries exam. Here is a video presentation on using the TSQL …
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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Quite often when working testing different performance measures from the Database Health Reports to testing Resource Governor configuration I end up in a situation where I need to emulate a high CPU load on my test SQL Server. In this …