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SQL SQL Server

Renaming Tables in SQL Server

Renaming tables, that’s easy right? Renaming a Table Performing the rename of a table is straight forward in Management Studio via Object Explorer. You can simply select the table and right click and Rename (or press F2) and edit the name right there and then. Hit return and we’re good to go. If you’re scripting […]

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SQL Server

A Story of Memory Pressure in SQL Server

Recently there was a question of why a query runs under a second on one environment and another environment runs the same query for 90 seconds and times out the application. It was observed the memory on the second system was running at 94% and so it was put down to that and ‘get more […]

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SQL Server SSIS

Tidying up the SSIS Database

If we’re running SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) then it’s database is the wonderful place where we store our packages ready for execution and the lovely logs we can interrogate when those packages inevitably break (of course not, our code is perfect, right?) This database is all well and good in a fresh environment however […]