Removing accented and illegal characters from a string
A T-SQL function that strips illegal characters from strings and replaces accented letters with their plain equivalents for search cleanup.
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Full-Text Search Operators – Part 1: Cleaning up parentheses in a string
Part 1 of building a T-SQL Boolean search parser for SQL Server full-text search, covering parentheses validation and cleanup.
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Generate scripts to detach/attach all databases
A T-SQL script that generates sp_attach_db commands for all user databases with their file paths, simplifying detach and reattach operations.
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Do you want a job? Then don’t do this…
Common mistakes job applicants make when applying for database roles, from text-speak in applications to sending the wrong cover letter.
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Identifying unique indexes that aren’t defined as unique
A SQL Server script to find non-unique indexes where the underlying data is currently distinct, identifying candidates for unique index conversion.
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SQL Breakfast
How a team Tech Breakfast watching Kimberly Tripp's Indexing Internals session turned into a great way to learn and spark discussion.
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Our SQL Server “Denali” experiences – Part 2
Load testing SQL Server Denali at Trade Me with impressive results, handling 50% of search traffic and solving full-text performance issues from SQL 2008.
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Snapshot isolation and tempdb growth
How an orphaned session under READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT caused tempdb to balloon to 15GB by preventing the version store from flushing.
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Our SQL Server “Denali” experiences – Part 1
Installing SQL Server Denali on a production read-only server at Trade Me, covering replication setup and full-text index configuration.
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Where am I?
A tip for verifying which SQL Server instance you're connected to in SSMS, after encountering a bug where the displayed server name was wrong.
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