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Sep16

SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All The Constraint of Database – Find Primary Key and Foreign Key Constraint in Database

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Scripts, SQL System Table
101 Comments

A simple script from my archive lists all constraints from sys.objects, so you can check each foreign key and primary key constraint in database tables.

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Sep15

Writing T-SQL Somebody Else Can Maintain

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Database, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
4 Comments

Write maintainable T-SQL with clear names, explicit results, focused procedures, and comments that explain the business reason behind the code.

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Sep14

Grouping Dates Into Buckets With DATE_BUCKET

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Server, SQL Server 2022
No Comments

DATE_BUCKET groups timestamps into hourly, weekly, and custom intervals, with an origin that determines where every boundary lands.

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Sep13

SQL SERVER – Difference Between EXEC and EXECUTE vs EXEC() – Use EXEC/EXECUTE for SP always

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Cursor, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
72 Comments

What is the difference between EXEC and EXECUTE? None. The real difference is EXEC vs EXEC(), and I show why EXEC belongs before every stored procedure call.

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Sep12

SQLAuthority News – Scrum: Agile Software Development for Project Management

Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
Database, DBA, Software Development
3 Comments

What I learned as a project manager about Scrum, an Agile Software Development system: the Product Owner, ScrumMaster and Team roles, and how the process runs.

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Sep11

SQL SERVER – Frequency of SQL Server Reboot and Restart

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, DBA, SQL Server Security
3 Comments

How often should you do a SQL Server reboot? From my experience there is no need, though our network team reboots all our servers every 15 days.

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Sep11

SQLAuthority News – Book Review – SQL Server 2005 DBA Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to SQL Server 2005 Certification Skills

Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
SQLAuthority Book Review
5 Comments

My review of SQL Server 2005 DBA Street Smarts by Joseph L. Jorden, built on exam 70-431 and useful as a reference for the daily tasks of a DBA.

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 19 books and 120 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

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