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Category: T-SQL

About Collations in SQL Server

Posted on 04/10/201904/24/2019 by Lincoln Bovee'

This post will be fore the purpose of documenting all my findings regarding Collations in SQL Server, including changing the collation on an…

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Some database design guidelines and best practices

Posted on 01/29/201803/12/2018 by Lincoln Bovee'

Below are some best practices known within the SQL Server database community use when designing tables. 1. All data columns should be properly…

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SQL documentation tools and permissions required

Posted on 01/25/201801/26/2018 by Lincoln Bovee'

Database documentation tools like Devarts’ dbDocumenter will require, at a minimum, VIEW DEFINITION rights to the login:

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USE myDatabase
GO
 
GRANT VIEW DEFINITION TO [DOMAIN\MyADGroup]

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Bulk-copy SQL Server Agent jobs to new server

Posted on 03/23/201703/23/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

The easiest way to bulk-copy all SQL Agent jobs to a new server is to follow these steps 1. Load SSMS and connect…

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A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins

Posted on 06/20/201606/20/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

A good blog-post on joins from a visual aspect. Nicely done. A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins Views – 2195

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Moving the TempDB database to a new drive

Posted on 03/22/201609/16/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

Often you will need to add or move the tempDB data files, either to match the core count (up to 8 as best…

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Resolving “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”

Posted on 03/21/201605/10/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

I recently had to run a query for one of our developers where the script was inserting a number of rows. All went…

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PASS 2015 – Seattle WA – Day 3

Posted on 10/28/201512/03/2015 by Lincoln Bovee'

PASS 2015 10-28-30 Seattle WA SQL Server Indexing for Performance Kimberly Trip NOTE: Narrow NC indexes very rarely are useful. NOTE: Putting a…

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PASS 2015 – Seattle WA – Pre-Con Day 2 – Dmitri Korotkevitch

Posted on 10/28/201502/12/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

PASS 2015 10-27-30 Seattle WA Pre-Con Day 2 – SQL Server Internals – The Practical Angle Dmitri Korotkevitch Data Storage 101 Data Pages…

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T-SQL Querying and Query Processing Order

Posted on 06/23/201401/21/2019 by Lincoln Bovee'

The order in which we write T-SQL queries happen in this order:

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SELECT
FROM
WHERE
GROUP BY
HAVING
ORDER BY

however, the order the Query Processor on SQL Server processes…

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