SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access
A couple weeks ago a user complained that on one of our development databases, one of the views he was...
2011-09-28
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Seth Phelabaum
Replication DDL Triggers
Because this was a problem that Google was zero help on and I did find a couple other people afflicted...
2011-09-21
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Normalize your Linked Server Names
This is a technique I’m sure many people are already using in their environments. Instead of using the actual name...
2011-09-14
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SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups
Here are a couple more SSMS tricks I’ve stumbled upon recently. Both involve the functionality of registered servers. If you...
2011-04-17
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SSMS Tips & Tricks – Scripting Multiple Objects
This is one that I figured most everyone would know, but repeatedly over the past couple weeks in my office,...
2011-04-02
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SSMS Tools Pack – Script Grid Results
Most of us like things that make our lives easier. When they’re free, it’s just that much sweeter. I would...
2011-02-13
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SSMS Tips and Tricks – ALTernative Highlighting
This isn’t exactly the best thing since bread (or even sliced bread for that matter), but I figured I’d share...
2011-02-07
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2010 Goals Review
So… this is late. And I missed my q3 goals review all together. Oh well, not much I can do...
2011-01-23
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2011 Goals
Last year I posted professional goals along with quite a few other bloggers and it helped to keep me somewhat...
2011-01-23
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Going to SQL Saturday #46 in Raleigh, NC
So, after a rather hectic few months, I’m finally crawling back out of the hole I’ve been occupying and getting...
2010-09-16
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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
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Multiple Deployment Processes
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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