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  1. Thinking All The Way Around a Query

    As so often happens, I had an issue at work today that turned into (I think) a great blog/video idea.  Let's start with a simple scenario: We have two tables, each 2 columns wide, each with a 2 column composite key - meaning that (col1, col2) make up the ...

  2. SQL Bacon Nugget of Excellence Award @SQLGal

    OK so the last time I handed out a SQL Bacon Nugget of Excellence Award was July 8th for @SQLAgentMan ’s article on Determining Free Space, Consumed Space, and Total Space Allocated for Microsoft SQL Server Databases and this time around @SQLGal has put something together that can only be ...

  3. PASS Board of Directors Nominations

    The PASS call for nominations to the Board of Directors will be ending soon at noon PT, September 3rd. If you have not yet taken the time to fill out your application, do not wait until the last minute. If you are looking for someone to make you feel loved ...

  4. Corruption in sys.dependencies

    The second type of corruption I want to look at is that of missing references in sys.sql_dependencies. This typically appears on SQL 2005 in a database upgraded from SQL 2000. On SQL 2000 it was possible to make direct updates to the system tables, and, in my opinion, if ...

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