SQLSATURDAY 982 / Auckland, New Zealand / Virtual Event

Posted by in SQL Server, SQLSATURDAY on Jul 15th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQLSATURDAY 982 / Auckland, New Zealand / Virtual Event
VIRTUAL EVENT   PASS SQLSaturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more.  SQLSaturday Auckland is back for 2020. They are going virtual in 2020. Due to the Covid-19 global impact they are still hosting the event, but it will be 100% virtual to keep all the attendees and speakers safe. Time and Date: Saturday, August 8, 2020 Add to Calendar More information:...
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SQL Server / Forwarded Records / Rebuild the Heap Tables Script

Posted by in SQL Server on Jun 9th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQL Server / Forwarded Records / Rebuild the Heap Tables Script
I was working with a customer having DB with more than 100K HEAP tables. Number of Forwarded Records on some tables were huge. They are using Ola Hallengren‘s scripts to maintain non-clustered indexes on those tables, but rebuilding those indexes do not fix the forwarded records on those HEAP tables. You actually need to rebuild the HEAP ALTER TABLE TableName REBUILD; Or to add a clustered index to the table (permanent fix). They are in the middle of the remodeling their DB so adding clustered indexes on those HEAP tables was not an option....
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SQLSATURDAY 986 / Brisbane, Australia / Virtual Event

Posted by in SQL Server, SQLSATURDAY on May 25th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQLSATURDAY 986 / Brisbane, Australia / Virtual Event
VIRTUAL EVENT   PASS SQLSaturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more.  SQLSaturday Brisbane 2020 is back for 2020. They are going virtual in 2020. Due to the Covid-19 global impact they are still hosting the event, but it will be 100% virtual to keep all the attendees and speakers safe. Time and Date: Saturday, May 30, 2020 Add to Calendar More information:...
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Auckland SQL User Group Meetup Event / Online Event / Kevin Kline, Microsoft MVP / 5 Critical Considerations When Moving to the Cloud

Posted by in SQL Server on May 14th, 2020 | 0 comments
Auckland SQL User Group Meetup Event / Online Event / Kevin Kline, Microsoft MVP / 5 Critical Considerations When Moving to the Cloud
ONLINE EVENT   Join Kevin Kline as he talks to the Auckland SQL User Group  TOPIC: “5 Critical Considerations When Moving to the Cloud.” 5 Critical Considerations When Moving to the Cloud Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 11:30 AM Online event , 36 database professionals Went Join Kevin Kline as he talks to the Auckland SQL User Group about “5 Critical Considerations When Moving to the Cloud.” **RSVP to get the Teams Live Event details** Migrating an existing on-premises SQL Server application to the cloud can be a daunting...
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SQL Server / BACPAC / Could not extract package from specified database – The wait operation timed out

Posted by in SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks on May 13th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQL Server / BACPAC / Could not extract package from specified database – The wait operation timed out
Export Data-tier Application. This is usually really simple and straight forward process. But what if you have database with over 100K tables, 200K indexes? You would probably end up with following timeout error during export process using SSMS To resolve this possible “Execution Timeout Expired” issue you may use SqlPackage.exe command-line utility to export your database including database schema and user data from SQL Server Database to a BACPAC package (.bacpac file)  More information about this command-line utility tool and...
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SQL Server / System Stored Procedures / Auto generated System Stored Procedures ‘dt_’

Posted by in SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks on Feb 26th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQL Server / System Stored Procedures / Auto generated System Stored Procedures ‘dt_’
Searching through my staging/test database and looking for ‘text’, ‘ntext’ data types I stumbled upon 31 system stored procedure starting with the prefix ‘dt_’.  I was mostly interested in two of them using text datatype as an input parameter. So what are those Stored Procedures? Using different Visual Tools against SQL Server, such as Enterprise Manager or design tools, will trigger auto generated code and create set of System Stored Procedures. Prefix ‘dt_’ stands for ‘DaVinci...
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SQL Server / PowerShell / Exporting data from a SQL Server table to multiple comma-separated value (CSV) files using PowerShell

Posted by in Powershell, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks on Jan 28th, 2020 | 0 comments
SQL Server / PowerShell / Exporting data from a SQL Server table to multiple comma-separated value (CSV) files using PowerShell
Export SQL Data to multiple CSV files. There are many different ways to do this (SSIS, TSQL) but I think that PowerShell could be really efficient tool for such small random tasks. For this example I will use test table with 17220 rows. First step is to export whole table to CSV file using export-csv cmdlet.  Export-CSV converts objects into a series of comma-separated value (CSV) strings and saves the strings to a file. If you want to find more details about Export-CSV cmdlet and see more usage examples you can read this MS article. param (...
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