A few short scripts checking out the cause for TFS Integration Tools refuses to start despite an admin being able to create a TEST database.
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TSQL: showing database level and server level permissions
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/12
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Venn Diagrams of SQL Join queries (via: Data Visualization – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/08
Some great venn diagrams of SQL JOINs via Data Visualization – Google+ of which I wish they were PNG:
Thanks to that link, I found the original article and images by C.L. Moffat!
Click on the image to view a larger version.
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SQL Server: when your database is in “Recovery Pending” mode
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
With SQL Server, when your database is in “Recovery Pending” mode don’t just start blindingly search google, but sit down as you might be causing more damage doing so.
After sitting down, read these two posts by Paul Randal | SQLskills.com from his SQL Server Corruption series:
- Search Engine Q&A #4: Using EMERGENCY mode to access a RECOVERY PENDING or SUSPECT database.
- SQL Server EMERGENCY mode repair.
Then think about it before acting.
Though the simplest cause for “Recovery Pending” might be that a disk spin-up was slow, or a disk became full (and everything might just be dandy after the disk is available and there is enough room on it), make sure you read the above posts first before relying on the simple causes.
–jeroen
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SQL Server Management Studio does have a Registered Servers window (via: Server Fault)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/26
One of the things I thought were missing from SSMS when coming from an ISQLW background was the “registered servers” window.
Well: it is still there, and this is how to set it up on an efficient way (:
–jeroen
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When opening SQL Server Management studio with ssms command (+parameters) I need the Object Explorer to be filled and point to the right location – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
As a SQL Server developer, most of us make extensive use of SQL Server Management Studio.
With lots of production database, I have a directory full of shorcuts that pre-fill server/database/… on the command-line.
One of the drawbacks these shortcuts have is that the Object Explorer stays empty, and does not sync with the currently active Server/Database.
While browsing to solve that, I found that the
Alt+F8 shortcut will focus the SERVER in the Object Explorer.
This was explained by StackOverflow user Andrei Rantsevich who had this great answer on StackOverflow: Read the rest of this entry »
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Database Workbench v4 – version: 4.4.5. got released (via: News @ Upscene Productions)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/19
Today, Version 4.4.5 of Database Workbench got released.
It mainly is a bugfix release (15 out of 18 issues were bugfixes, of the rest, 2 are feature requests, 1 enhancement): List of items new/enhanced/fixed in Product: Database Workbench v4 – version: 4.4.5.
Download from the trial/lite download page, or from the customer download page.
Enjoy (:
–jeroen
via: News @ Upscene Productions.
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SQL Server 2014 is done: Hekaton, Azure integration (via: Tim Anderson’s ITWriting)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/19
Interesting: SQL Server 2014 is done: Hekaton, Azure integration « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting.
Most important feature is the in-memory database engine (OLTP).
Because the in-memory OLTP it is so highly optimized there are quite a few T-SQL features missing, but usually it is a magnitude faster than the disk based database engine.
For limitations, see Transact-SQL Constructs Not Supported by In-Memory OLTP.
–jeroen
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SQL Server: learned that you can pass a Style to CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/19
Funny way to learn something new:
I hardly use CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL), and when I do, it is the standard SQL-92 way.
But a while ago, I came across some code like this:
CONVERT(DATETIME, "31/12/2013", 105);
and wondered what the 105 was.
And it appeared to convert from the Italian date format to DateTime. And that it has been there since at least SQL Server 2000, probably earlier.
Not sure why the passed slashes (/) in stead of dashes (-) as separators though.
There are styles for these groups of conversions:
- Binary
- Date/Time
- Float/Real
- Money/Smallmoney
- XML
Never to old to learn something new (:
–jeroen
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How to setup and use a SQL Server alias
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/03
Just in case I need this ever again: How to setup and use a SQL Server alias.
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How can you force SQL Server 2008 R2 to accept an ORDER BY on a column that is not part of a table? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/04
I’m sure there are many organizations that only upgrade things until they absolutely have to (i.e. long after mainstream support has ended, often even after extended support has ended). This was from last year: upgrading away from SQL Server 2000 just before extended support ended. While migrating a bunch of applications we inherited from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2, I came across an ORDER BY style that failed. The queries are generated by an kind of SQL generation layer, so not easy to change. the main questions were:
- is it possible to force SQL Server 2008 R2 to accept this kind of queries and perform the SQL Server 2000 behaviour (so we can fix the SQL generation layer, and perform regression on it)?
- why would SQL Server 2000 happily accept this kind of queries?
First two possible fixes, then the full stack overflow question I posted about the migration.
Aaron Bertrand very quickly posted two fixes, which I paraphrased and extended. Read the rest of this entry »
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