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Apr 19

Interesting New String Functions

By Lori Brown | SQL Development , SQL Server

Here are a few new string functions that I cam across while doing some research.  Just goes to show you that you learn something new every day! STRING_AGG (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/string-agg-transact-sql) This function is available starting with SQL 2017. It concatenates values from rows and places your separator in between the values. Here I create a comma […]

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Sep 28

Get Index Column Info with Includes for One or Many Tables

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Missing Indexes , Performance Tuning , Query Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

I was recently working with one of my clients on some low hanging fruit type of query tuning. We had checked the cache for plans with missing index warnings in them and were trying to see if we could tweak and existing index or add a new index to speed things up. If you ever […]

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May 19

SQL 2017 Is On The Way!!

By Lori Brown | CTP , SQL 2017 , SQL Server

–By Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah SQL Server 2017 is rolling our way like a big ole train. And, with the new features that are going to be available there may be quite a few shops that want to jump onboard. As of this writing SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 is available for download and testing. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2017-ctp/ […]

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