Blog Post: Default nullability of a new column
Ever assume that when you don’t specify NULL or NOT NULL on a new column it’s going to allow NULLs? I always did. Turns out I was wrong. When you don’t specify NULL vs NOT NULL it will usually default...
View ArticleBlog Post: GetLogSpace – table and stored procedure
We’ve talked before about how to get log space usage information in SQL Server. After the 1,032nd time I re-wrote my custom query to also see the UNused log space, it occurs to me that this would be a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #77
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” ( so exciting ), follow me on twitter ( @StrateSQL ). And see these throughout the day as I tweet out...
View ArticleBlog Post: Final Four Match Ups have Nothin’ on the Perfect Match of Backup...
Unless you happened to be a Mercer grad and picked its first round Duke upset, your March Madness bracket is likely busted. So since you’re never seeing the 10 bucks you dropped into the office pool...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Primary Filegroup Cannot be Backed Up as a File Backup
File Group backups are great when working with very large databases (VLDB’s) that have been partitioned. Typically when I come across File Group backups implemented in production the database is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Day in the UK
The driver behind the move After over two and a half years at my current employers I am afraid to say that today is my last day. I’ve had a great time, met some wonderful people both internally and...
View ArticleBlog Post: CREATE SESSION CUBE and disk usage
You learn all kinds of interesting things on the forums! Recently I saw this post from Nils Rottgardt about a problem with the CREATE SESSION CUBE statement and SSAS Multidimensional:...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Undocumented Feature in SQL Server 2014
Today is the eagerly anticipated launch of SQL Server 2014, I have downloaded and installed a copy of the RTM product and had a play. During some intensive testing I found that there is a new...
View ArticleBlog Post: DAX: Calculating different rates on user defined inputs
A few weeks ago a client asked me an interesting question. They had a table of data, and they wanted to pass in (in their words) a variable in order to change the calculated value. I’d played around...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and...
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move even farther into the cloud. Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella announced this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tuesday Tips: SQL Server Optimization
Trying to get more value out of the SQL Servers (2008 or 2012) in your IT environment? Even if you’re meeting business requirements, maximizing scalability and efficiency of database servers will...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here . Something that hasn’t received much word is a new...
View ArticleComment on New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
Ah! I did not know about this change in 2014. Most sites skipped over it, like you mentioned. Thakns
View ArticleBlog Post: Growth In The Face Of Adversity
Adversity as described in Webster’s Dictionary is a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune. Not really a topic most want to talk about, but nonetheless is...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2014 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for SQL Server
On this April Fools’ day of 2014 I received this news from Microsoft: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical...
View ArticleBlog Post: Availability databases in unhealthy data synchronization state...
After power surge last night, I realized few availability databases (also known as a “database replica”) have an unhealthy data synchronization state. What I mean from unhealthy is that they have a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Policy Based Management White Paper
Below is a link to a white paper I wrote on Policy Based Management. It serves as a guide to not only explain the technology but also walk you through setting it up and designing some policies. You...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell GUI Tool – Network Ping – Version 2
The first version of the tool was developed by Amandhally and it can be found in the below path. Thanks for sharing....
View ArticleBlog Post: SQLCAT whitepapers.
SQLCAT stands for SQL Customer Advisory Team. The SQLCAT blog contains amazing posts by Microsoft’s SQL engineers back at Redmond. Reading this blog will give you a lot of intrinsic information about...
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