ISO week numbers can belong to a different year from the calendar date. A Thursday-based calculation keeps the ISO year and week together across December and January.
CDC Capture Lag: Read sys.dm_cdc_log_scan_sessions
CDC capture lag measures work committed at the source that the capture process has not yet exposed. Compare known markers, scan sessions and captured LSNs, and distinguish capture progress from a downstream consumer reading the changes.
SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate
Stream Aggregate is a common showplan operator, even in a simple COUNT(*) plan. I explain why a Compute Scalar often shows up right before it.
SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies – sp_depends and information_schema.routines
sp_depends can return wrong dependency results where information_schema.routines gets it right. See where it fails and the DMVs recommended in its place.
SQLAuthority News – MVP Open Day South Asia – Jan 20, 2010 – Jan 23, 2010 – Review Part Fun
MVP Open Day South Asia at Microsoft IDC Hyderabad was fun and educational. I met fellow MVPs and product group experts, and my family came along too.
SQLAuthority News – MVP Open Day South Asia – Jan 20, 2010 – Jan 23, 2010 – Review Part Business
MVP Open Day South Asia 2010 at Microsoft IDC Hyderabad was fun and educational: meeting product team members, old friends and experts from across the region.
SQL SERVER – Question – How to Convert Hex to Decimal
An inline function converting Hex to Decimal was slowing a client query. I tuned it, and now I ask readers to share the scripts they use for this.