Monthly Archives: April 2014

  1. DBA Myths: TRUNCATE TABLE deletes all the rows of a table instantly.

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    April 30, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Most DBAs and developers I’ve talked to over the years have felt that TRUNCATE TABLE is an instant DELETE. However …
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  2. The default autogrowth settings do NOT come from the Model database.

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    April 28, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I recently saw a question about How to inherit autogrowth settings. They commented that while the new database GUI seemed …
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  3. Collation: Confusion

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    April 23, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to …
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  4. Collation: Temporary objects and variables: Demonstration

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    April 21, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read …
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  5. Who is an expert?

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    April 16, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently Paul Randal had a brief rant on twitter where he complained about the fact that there are no stupid …
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  6. Collation: Correction -> Instance

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    April 14, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read …
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  7. Collation: Correction -> Expression, Column, Database

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    April 10, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read …
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  8. T-SQL Tuesday #53: Why so serious

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    April 8, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Why so serious? If you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I’m not a terribly serious person. …
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  9. Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!

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    April 1, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move …
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