Question For example, I had a database and I want to see which physical backup file was used to restore into it. The problem is that the database was deleted. How can I see the record? asked 2019-11-23 by sql-noob Answer Depending on how the … [Read More]
For a while, I have been thinking about using my Stack Overflow answers (and answers on other sites on the Stack Exchange Network), and storing a copy of them here, on my blog as well. All posts on the Stack Exchange network are covered under … [Read More]
Statistics auto-updates are generally a good thing–auto-update of statistics is the default behavior in SQL Server. Having the freshest information about the data “shape” helps to inform the best selection of an execution plan for queries. Except for when it doesn’t. Because It Depends™️ Let’s … [Read More]
vstrien is using the (legacy) SQLPS Powershell module, and running into a bug where importing the module changes your current directory.
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Brent Ozar (blog|Instagram) asks us to describe the most recent ticket we closed. “We had a pretty significant wait spike…” The literal last ticket I closed was “please run this script in production…”, and I don’t think it would be … [Read More]
Question I have the following SQL Server table : For the two constraints I listed the more important constraint first hoping that if both constraints are violated, the first one would be triggered and displayed to the user. However, it appears the constraints are declared … [Read More]
Question We have a 3TB OLTP database running Siemens Opcenter MES software at one of our manufacturing plants in China. This is setup in an Always-On Availability group with one secondary node. As this is a manufacturing plant, we are only provided 11 1/2 hours … [Read More]
Question I just learned that indexes can be disabled on a table. Even the clustered index can be disabled. After that, users can’t access the index or the data if clustered index. When will we disable an index? I just don’t understand the use case. … [Read More]
I’ve seen more and more events & communities adopt Codes of Conduct. Even local events, local user groups, and smaller online communities are adopting Codes of Conduct. That’s GREAT! …but it’s just a great start. It’s not that easy. Discoverability The issue of discoverability is … [Read More]
Question I am trying to import a bacpac file to my SQL Server Express 2016. An exception is thrown during the import with Returns: Incorrect syntax near ‘ADMINISTER’. I am running the import as the sa user. Later when I try to run the SQL … [Read More]
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