The OUTPUT clause is often times underappreciated by the TSQL programmer. There are many really interesting things that you can do with the OUTPUT clause, from inserting to two tables with one statement or to replace the SCOPE_IDENTITY option. For …
After the last post on Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) or as it is known in TSQL CUME_DIST(), I realized that although I showed how to use it, I didn’t really explain what it means, or when to use it. That …
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Most of us are familiar with the quick and easy right clicking on an agent job an select “Start job at Step…”, but what if you need to run a job on many servers how can you kick it off …
This confused me for a few minutes today and I wanted to share to help avoid further confusion. The specific code was this: Names have been changed to protect the innocent. In the above delete statement which table …
The seventh week of ten in the Database Corruption Challenge went well. There were a few new participants, and many of those who have competed week over week. The first to submit a correct answer this week was Raul Gonzalez. What was …
I was asked recently how to move TempDB on SQL Server. The question specifically was how to move the TempDB files to different drives. At that point I realized that I don’t have that posted to my blog, so here we go. …
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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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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Day 5 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today I will cover concepts around the scope of a CTE. The queries in the video will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on …
Day 4 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today I will cover the topic of terminating the previous T-SQL statement. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO Sample …
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