Many Times!
These table valued functions of the built-in variety have this problem.
This one is no exception. Well, it does throw an exception. But you know.
That’s not exceptional.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.select_into; BEGIN TRAN SELECT id =…
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These table valued functions of the built-in variety have this problem.
This one is no exception. Well, it does throw an exception. But you know.
That’s not exceptional.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.select_into; BEGIN TRAN SELECT id =…
It’s the first public CTP. Things will change. Things will get better. Think about the rich history of Microsoft fixing stuff immediately, like with adding an ordinal position to STRING_SPLIT.
That came out in SQL Server …
I’m gonna take a quick break from (mostly) technical content to blog about a problem I see day in and day out when working with clients: Bad SQL©.
The stuff I normally blog about — why some things …
I’ve said quite a bit about missing index request utility generally in SQL Server, even as recently as last week!
But then I got a user question about using Query Store to do something …
There are lots of things that can go wrong with SQL Server, performance-wise. Just about anything can fly off the handle.
Recently, I was handing out a passing thought on Twitter that caught the attention of …
In the quest for me trying to get people to upgrade to a not-old-and-busted version of SQL Server, this is one that I talk about a lot because it really helps folks who don’t have all the time in …
There are a million scripts out there that will give you all of the missing index requests for a database (or even a whole server).
Some will even try to prioritize based on the metrics logged along with …
If you use this script, you can follow along with the results.
The sys.dm_exec_function_stats DMV is only available in SQL Server 2016+, so if you’re on an earlier version than that, you should focus your energies on upgrading.…
The more people want to avoid fixing what’s really wrong with their server, the more they go out and find all the weird stuff that they can blame on something else (usually the product), or keep doing the …
I’ve had it with presenting online, especially full-day precons. Talking to yourself for eight hours while standing in front of a camera is about as enjoyable as it sounds.