insert on table being unnaturally slow

August 16, 2021 Andy 0

Question I have an "Basic" pricing tier Azure SQL database with a table of 7 columns, an ID column of int that is the clustered index and primary key, one datetime2(0) column, 3 varchar(100) columns and 2 varchar(MAX) columns, all nullable. The table has no … [Read More]

What are the .BCP files inside a .bacpak file?

August 16, 2021 Andy 0

Question Diving on dba.stackexchange.com I found a nice answer that teach me how to open a .bacpac file with File Explorer. I gave it a try with the database AdventureWorks2008R2 and all I did was: Save the database as .bacpac file Rename the file extension … [Read More]

Job to stop other job at specific time

August 13, 2021 Andy 0

Question We have a job which imports data daily from a remote SQL Server every night, I’ll call it Import-Job. Most of the time this job runs through in about 15 minutes and everything is fine but due to a rather unstable VPN connection sometimes … [Read More]