Comments for SQL Studies http://sqlstudies.com  Live, Learn, Share Sat, 14 Mar 2015 05:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Using Solutions in SSMS by Kenneth Fisher http://sqlstudies.com/2015/03/11/using-solutions-in-ssms/comment-page-1/#comment-14105 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 05:18:34 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2427#comment-14105 I don’t see the “Add to Solution” option unless I specifically open it under “File->Open->Project/Solution”. If I use “File->Recent Projects and Solutions” then I don’t get the option and it closes everything down. It’s annoying I agree. One thing you can do is modify your shortcut (or create one) that opens the project initially. That way it’s not an issue. Here is the link to the command line options for SSMS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162825.aspx ]]> Comment on Using Solutions in SSMS by Taiob http://sqlstudies.com/2015/03/11/using-solutions-in-ssms/comment-page-1/#comment-14103 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:21:11 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2427#comment-14103 Thank you for your work. Are you using 2012 version of ssms? In 2014 I am not seeing “Add to Solution” option. So my existing open queries are being closed every time I open frequently used script project. Any suggestion, am I missing something? ]]> Comment on Logins vs Users by Executing sys.dm_fts_parser without sysadmin server role | XL-UAT http://sqlstudies.com/2012/12/03/logins-vs-users/comment-page-1/#comment-14044 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:42:29 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=246#comment-14044 […] with a user. Only a login can have server level permissions such as sysadmin. I discussed this here if you are […] ]]> Comment on Using Solutions in SSMS by brimhj http://sqlstudies.com/2015/03/11/using-solutions-in-ssms/comment-page-1/#comment-14043 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:11:05 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2427#comment-14043 Excellent post. I use solutions all the time for my various scripts, broken down into sub projects. I find it very helpful. ]]> Comment on sp_helptext by Who’s using that database? | SQL Studies http://sqlstudies.com/2012/09/02/sp_helptext/comment-page-1/#comment-13997 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:00:24 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=58#comment-13997 […] mention the probability of me missing someone. So what’s a better solution? Well if you use sp_helptext on sp_who you will see that it uses the dbid column in sysprocesses. Unfortunately here is what we […] ]]> Comment on Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1 by Henry Stinson, BSECE http://sqlstudies.com/2015/02/16/tales-of-a-dba-fed-up-with-nolock-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13903 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:43:16 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2381#comment-13903 Transaction Snapshot Isolation can be the answer in many cases, grabbing a snapshot in time of READ_COMMITTED data to work with. Doesn’t lock anything up, and you can use it for queries, but if used in a process that later updates, you might have to have code check to make sure the data you’re updating has not been modified by another process in the meantime. There are ways built into SQL Server to do this. I’d have to look up the exact syntax to do this. But if all you are doing is generating a report or just showing queried data, you at least avoid grabbing partially updated data right in the middle of another process updating or inserting a set of data.

(You have to enable snapshot isolation at the server level — which doesn’t make that the universal default, just enables it.)

]]> Comment on Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2 by Sarah http://sqlstudies.com/2015/02/23/tales-of-a-dba-fed-up-with-nolock-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13894 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:40:41 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2417#comment-13894 Great. I look forward to reading it! Thanks for the blog and scripts. ]]> Comment on Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2 by Kenneth Fisher http://sqlstudies.com/2015/02/23/tales-of-a-dba-fed-up-with-nolock-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13893 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:34:47 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2417#comment-13893 I’ve actually got one in the works for the why not. Won’t come out for a few weeks though.

As far as better practices that get’s really complex. That goes into the whole subject of performance tuning. Good indexing is a start, but the subject can get huge. That’s one of the reasons you see NOLOCK so often. It’s quick, it’s easy, and the down sides aren’t really obvious (nothing immediately breaks).

]]> Comment on Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2 by Sarah http://sqlstudies.com/2015/02/23/tales-of-a-dba-fed-up-with-nolock-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13892 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:18:18 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2417#comment-13892 For those that don’t know, it would be helpful to explain some of the consequences of using NOLOCK and SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED and some programming practices that are better to use instead. ]]> Comment on Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2 by Kenneth Fisher http://sqlstudies.com/2015/02/23/tales-of-a-dba-fed-up-with-nolock-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13891 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:45:42 +0000 http://sqlstudies.com/?p=2417#comment-13891 Strange. I’ve viewed it on Chrome and IE 10 and not had any problems. Worst case though you can just read it here :). ]]>