When working with Azure SQL databases one of the biggest irritants is the lack of access to backup files. A lot of the time we need to refresh […]
Updating Stats in Azure SQL Database
Recently we were having some issues with DTU utilization in Microsoft SQL Azure. One of the troubleshooting steps that was suggested was the update statistics and rebuild indexes. […]
Profile columns for indexes
Every once in a while, as part of a consulting project I need to investigate all the different columns and datatypes used within the tables. Often in order […]
Monty Hall Simulation using T-SQL
The first time I heard about the Monty Hall problem was while watching TV. The host of the TV show had presented the problem as you typically […]
Query to quickly profile a column
Every once in a while, there is a need to profile columns in a table. typically as part of a redesign, the below query help quickly profile some […]
Part 2:- Learning T SQL for beginners – Datatypes
In the previous post I talked about what Microsoft SQL Server programming language (T-SQL) is about. I also explained what a table is and what basic information is requires. In this […]
Part 1:- Learning T SQL for beginners- SQL, Tables and Nulls
Learning SQL is easy when you have a good understanding of the basics. Everything else is based on the basics and it’s been the same since RDBMS (relational […]
Query to find execution time of Jobs
Recently we have been facing couple of issues with regard to the way the jobs have been scheduled. To investigate this, we needed a query that can identify the execution […]
A simple script to decapitalize Column names
The above script can take column names for all tables in the database and provide the rename script to only capitalize the first letter.
Simple Function to capitalize a string
Recently I was required to write a function that would capitalize the 1st letter in every word. This is a fairly common requirement and I felt that there […]