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Nested CTEs
Day 11 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at how to use multiple nested CTEs in a query. These queries will be using that database that was set...
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Nested CTE’s Gone Wild – The Video
Day 12 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at how to use multiple nested CTEs in a query to use up all the memory on your SQL Server. These...
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CTE Data Paging
Day 14 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at data paging with CTE’s and how it compares to the offset and fetch in T-SQL 2012. Now on to CTE...
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CTE Data Paging in a Procedure
Day 15 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at data paging with CTE’s in a function. Yesterday we took a look at CTEs for Data Paging, today we...
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SQL Sunday Fun – Word Search with New T-SQL 2012 Functionality
Click on the grid to enlarge, then print it. Find the following words in the grid up, down, left, right, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. ROWS RANGE PRECEDING FOLLOWING UNBOUNDED IIF...
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T-SQL: A Listing Databases Example Using a Cursor
In SQL Server the cursor is a tool that is used to iterate over a result set, or to loop through each row of a result set one row at a time. It may not be the best way to work with a set of data, but...
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Simple Cursor Example : FORWARD_ONLY vs FAST FORWARD
First lets take a look at two queries using CURSORS, the first one will use the FORWARD_ONLY type cursor, and the second will use the FAST_FORWARD type cursor. These two types sound very similar, but...
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SQL Saturday Denver
This year the Denver SQL Saturday is being held on September 19th. I believe it has been 2 years since I attended SQL Saturday in Denver. Since the last time I was at SQL Saturday Denver, my...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
There is a lot happening right now, so I thought I would put together a brief overview of upcoming speaking engagements. May 13th – When Corruption Strikes (PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Meeting) May 16th –...
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Week 5 – Corruption Challenge
Welcome to the Week 5 Corruption Challenge. If you have seen the t-shirt that I designed for the winner at the end of the 10 week period, please take a look. We are currently at the 5 week midpoint...
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Corruption Presentation
Today I had the opportunity to present When Corruption Strikes to the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Meeting. This was a lot of fun to be able to recap the previous 4 weeks of the Database Corruption...
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TSQL JOIN Types – SQL Saturday
Today I am presenting at SQL Saturday in Redmond Wa. My presentation is on SQL JOIN types. If you have seen my JOIN Types Poster, you should check it out. Download the slides and sample TSQL code:...
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When Database Corruption Strikes
Today I am presenting to the session “When Database Corruption Strikes” to the High Availability and Disaster Recovery PASS Virtual Chapter. Here is the abstract: You are working along month after...
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24 Hours of PASS – Advanced CTE Presenation
Today I am presenting on Advanced Common Table Expressions as part of the 24 Hours of PASS conference. It is being webcast so check it out if you can. The outline for the presentation will be the...
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SQL Server Mentoring – Now Available
Yesterday I was asked by a client about consulting questions and for my help without the typical minimum hourly commitment. He pointed out that he has things that he could use help with that don’t...
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Silencing Backup Messages with Trace Flag 3226
As a DBA you regularly schedule backups you might have regular full backups, incremental backups and hopefully regular backups. Over time you might realize that your error log is not longer filled with...
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Introduction to SQL Server Class
From September 15th 2015 to October 1st 2015 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings I will be teaching a Introduction to SQL Server class. Interested you can sign up here: Class Info and Signup Introduction...
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mssqlsystemresource Database
I was looking through my SQL Server error logs to confirm that CheckDB was being run as I had scheduled based on my previous post to run DBCC CheckDB on all databases. I wanted to confirm that there...
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Max Server Memory – SQL Server
Max Server Memory Setting Explained If you have more memory than your database and applications on the SQL Server will ever use than this is not a problem, but when you run into memory constraints this...
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Using SQL Server Compressed Backups
The Quick Scan report in Database Health Monitor detects when you are performing SQL Server backups without compression, when the compression option is available. This applies to Full backups,...
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