What is open source? A beginner friendly guide to open and closed source software, licenses, community, and what open source costs.
What are the Different Types of Cloud Deployments?
What are the different types of cloud deployments? Private, public, hybrid and multi-cloud explained simply, with when to use each.
What is Cloud Computing?
What is cloud computing? A beginner friendly guide to virtualization, scaling, and the IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and serverless service models.
What is the Cloud?
What is the cloud? A beginner friendly guide: whose computers you rent, what changes for you, what stays your job, and common myths.
What does Verify Backup When Finished do in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #283
Question: What does Verify Backup When Finished do in SQL Server? It looks like a very important step in the entire backup and restores.
DEFAULT WITH VALUES: Fill Existing Rows on a New Column
DEFAULT WITH VALUES fills the rows that already exist when you add a column with a default. Without it, a nullable column keeps NULL in every old row. This post shows the three cases side by side, what a default never does, why the constraint needs a name, and how a large table takes the change in a millisecond.
SQL SERVER – Creating System Admin (SA) Login With Empty Password – Bad Practice
An empty password on sa is a serious security failure. I stopped an e-commerce consultation after noticing passwordless administrator sign-ins.
WITH NORECOMPUTE: Stop Auto Updates on One Table
WITH NORECOMPUTE tells SQL Server to stop updating the statistics of one table automatically. This post sets it with UPDATE STATISTICS, proves that the modification counter keeps growing while nothing refreshes, and shows how to turn it off again. It also shows a safer option for the same problem, a persisted sample percent.
Deadlock Victim Selection: Protect One Transaction
Deadlock victim selection decides which of two blocked transactions SQL Server rolls back. This post shows the rules, sets DEADLOCK_PRIORITY on one procedure, reproduces a deadlock with two query windows, and shows what the setting cannot do. It ends with the two fixes that remove the deadlock itself.
Connections by Protocol: Shared Memory, TCP and Named Pipes
Connections by protocol tell you whether a client reaches SQL Server through shared memory, TCP or a named pipe, and from which address. This post reads the connection view for your own session, connects three ways to see each protocol, lists every connection with its host and program, and counts them by protocol.