Today was the announcement of the 2018 PASS Summit Community Speakers, and I am fortunate enough to have been included on that list for the 4th year in a row. This conference will be in Seattle in November. Here is the session that was accepted. Exploring SQL Server Join Types – INNER, OUTER, and Much More Speaker: Steve Stedman Duration: 75 minutes …
It can be a bit time consuming to work through the the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) user interface to check on the agent job history to find specific agent jobs that have been run. To help speed that process up, I created the following TSQL script to directly query the job history. This query makes use of a common table …
Its not always quick and easy in SQL Server to get a full list of the jobs that have been run, when they were run and how long they took. I created the following script to quickly check on the status and run time of SQL Server maintenance plans and jobs. Display Job History Just run the script in SQL …
Yesterday I blogged about submitting to SQL Saturday Denver, which is about 5 months away, after writing that post, I realized that I haven’t even blogged about SQL Saturday Redmond which is occurring in just over 2 weeks. SQL Saturday #393 Redmond marks just 3 years since my first time speaking at a SQL Saturday #108 in Redmond. So lets …
>>> 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 the Venn diagrams for the two, they are both shown as the same, however they are not the same by …
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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Here is a quick rundown on the T-SQL DATEPART function for SQL Server. DATEPART is used to pull a single part of a date/time element out as shown below. The following query uses DATEPART to extract the year from the datetime input. The following query uses DATEPART to extract the quarter from the datetime input. The following query uses DATEPART …