I read a very informative post today on Linkedin about how developers sometime don’t understand the impact of using table valued parameters in a stored procedure. A table […]
Adding a Quintillion
An interesting problem was asked on #Sqlhelp recently about adding very large numbers, in excess of 20 digits in SSAS tabular model. While most of us will find […]
Azure / MSSQL / TSQL / Uncategorized
Query to find size of tables in Azure database
Quick and dirty way to find the size of all tables in a azure database.
administration / Errors / TSQL
Cannot use row granularity hint on the table
Got approached with the below error message recently and thought it might be an interesting problem to look into. ProgrammingError((\’42000\’, 651, \'[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Cannot use […]
administration / MSBI / MSSQL / TSQL / Uncategorized
#sqlhelp | should you remove indexes from tables before ETL?
Starting today we are introducing a new type of blog content which covers questions from #sqlhelp. We pick random questions from the feed and try to cover them […]
How Random is the RAND() function? SQL, Chance and the universe.
I use the Random function quite a bit to generate dummy data. So recently I was interested to find out actually how random it is. Randomness implies that […]
Decimal datatype rounding
Recently I was asked this question about how decimal is rounding off values when doing a simple calculation. The question was I am not able to find why […]
Identity value skips after restart
Recently a client of mine had complained to me about an issue they were facing when restarts happen on a system. After a restart the system skips the […]
Forcing Columnstore batch mode on Select * type query
Recently at a consulting project while working with tabular model I was asked about how we can force SQL Server to use batch mode on Columnstore index when […]