Using an UPDATE Statement to Update a Column and Set a Variable
I am a day and a half into the SQLskills Internals Immersion Event and I expect to have a lot more to post once I’ve recovered. Kimberly Tripp (blog | twitter) covered a feature of the UPDATE statement...
View ArticleSQL Friends Lunch – Friday, May 18th
I have survived the week-long SQLskills Internals Immersion Event, having spent the better part of the weekend recovering. I am still organizing my notes, but expect to have a long series of blog posts...
View ArticleSQL Server Log Space Reservation – Part I
My biggest challenge in blogging about the SQLskills Internals Immersion Event is picking a topic to start with. I am going to choose log file space consumption because of an issue that occurred this...
View ArticleSQL Server Log Space Reservation – Part II
In my last post, I wrote about SQL Server reserving space for open transactions to account for potential rollback. This reserved space is released once the transaction commits. You can track the amount...
View ArticleA SQL Weekend – SQL Friends and SQL Saturday #119
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with some of the best and brightest folks in the SQL Server world. Friday I attended the second SQLFriends lunch with Aaron Lowe (b|t), Jes Borland (b|t), Ted...
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