Understand entity-attribute-value query costs, lost types, indexing limits, and alternatives using real columns, sparse columns, or JSON.
Writing Rerunnable Deployment Scripts for Database Changes
Write rerunnable deployment scripts with guarded schema changes, version records, and a dry run on a restored database copy.
SQL SERVER Management Studio and SQLCMD Mode
Honestly, there is an alternative way to quickly use SSMS SQLCMD mode as a development environment, let us learn about it today.
Query Store On or Off for Every Database: Review First
To turn Query Store on or off for every database, you need one statement per database, because there is no server switch. This post builds a tested script that writes the statements, lets you read them and then runs them in one batch. It also covers READ_ONLY mode and the model database.
SSMS Command Timeout: What the Execution Time-out Does
The SSMS command timeout is the number of seconds a query window waits before it cancels a batch. This post lists the four places a time-out can come from and reproduces a client time-out with sqlcmd and PowerShell. It also shows how an Extended Events session proves that the client gave up.
SSMS ROWCOUNT Setting: Why Your Query Stops at 100 Rows
The SSMS ROWCOUNT setting limits every query in a window to a fixed number of rows, and it can change the plan as well. This post shows the effect on rows, reads and plan with a tested demo, how to check your own session and why UPDATE statements stop at the limit too.
sp_helpdb in SQL Server: List Databases and Their Files
sp_helpdb in SQL Server lists every database on an instance, or the files of one database, with a single call. This post builds three small databases, reads the output column by column and explains why db_size is text. It also shows how to filter the result and how to find free space.