It’s a really common question: “How do I shrink my database?” Luckily, there’s also a really common answer: “Don’t.” …but what if you really have to? Perhaps you just implemented data compression, and have 60% free space in your database. Perhaps you just deleted a … [Read More]
Someone posted to #sqlhelp on Twitter, asking the following: “Wondered if anyone could enlighten me as to why ISNUMERIC(‘7d8’) returns 1?” Sure enough, SELECT ISNUMERIC(‘7d8′) returns a 1. WTF? d isn’t numeric! OK, sure, if you say “seven-dee-eight” out loud it sounds like a number, but “d” is a … [Read More]
This week at work, I noticed CPU on one server seemed pretty high. I wasn’t familiar with this particular server, but based on the applications it supported, I was expecting the server to be under-utilized. I went over to vCenter to look at historical CPU … [Read More]
It’s T-SQL Tuesday, the blog party that SQL Server expert Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) started. This month’s episode is hosted by Jens Vestergaard (blog | twitter). The topic: Favorite SQL Server Feature. When I saw this topic, I was really excited. My mind started racing through all the awesome features … [Read More]
Question I have created a 2012 WFC and SQL Server 2014 is clustered on it. The cluster works as expected but have a question on Users: I added a windows domain group to the cluster as sysadmin. When the user tries to log into SQL … [Read More]
Question ReportserverTempdb logfile is 6TB in size and growing and I need help. I am supporting a huge reporting server farm and the client wants reporting services to be in AlawysON Availability group(AAG) and we configured reportserver and reportserverTempDB on in three node Primary replica, … [Read More]
Question I have a table that has a unique ID, name, email, and some other fields. I want to match this table against another table on email, but sometimes emails are shared. The unique ID is not shared among tables, but I will input the … [Read More]
Question I have a table that is several hundred columns wide. Is there a way to convert each row into a single concatenated string with the column title included without having to list each single column in the query? I’m doing this because the columns … [Read More]
Question I’m a web developer and I want to export a database to work on it in my local machine. I’m using generate script with data. the script is generated but without the linked servers used by some Views. Is their a way to generate … [Read More]
Question I am working with a 500 GB SQL Server database. I need to reduce the size of the database data file after removing a large amount (50%) of the data. I tried re indexing, it’s good the database has de-fragmented. But the DB size … [Read More]
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