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Snowflake – Query Result from Cache or Disk

October 1, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Snowflake, SQL Cache, SQL Memory, SQL Server

Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, The topic is how to identify on the Snowflake platform if the query result is from cache or disk.

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Snowflake JavaScript Procedure: A Stored Procedure Template

September 30, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Snowflake, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure

A Snowflake JavaScript procedure wraps SQL statements in JavaScript code. This post gives a clean template, shows how to call it, read a result, pass an argument and catch an error. The code follows Snowflake’s documented API and was not run on a Snowflake account.

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SQL SERVER Agent Missing from SSMS

September 29, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Management Studio

Agent XPs can explain why SQL Server Agent is Missing from SSMS. I check edition and service state before changing configuration.

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Shredding JSON Into Relational Tables in One Pass

September 28, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
JSON, Output Clause, SQL Server, SQL Transactions

Use shredding JSON to stage parent and child rows, validate their data, capture identity mappings, and load relational tables atomically.

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SQL SERVER – Last 5 SQL in Sixty Seconds Video

September 24, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Server

Today I am going to share the last 5 SQL in Sixty Seconds videos with you all. Please let me know which of the last 5 you find the most interesting and why?

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Current Timestamp in Python and SQL: One Format, Two Tools

September 23, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Python, SQL DateTime, SQL Server

To get the current timestamp in Python, import datetime, call now and format the result with strftime. This post prints the same date and time in Python and in T-SQL, compares the two clocks, and shows how to ask for UTC in both.

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sp_execute_external_script: Run Python Inside SQL Server

September 22, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Python, SQL Server

Before you write any Python, check four switches. Here is how to read them, what error 39023 means, and what to test on your own server.

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