Bad Idea Cowboy Hat: Using a foreign key to prevent updates
When I decided to rip off of Brent Ozar’s (b/t) Bad Idea Jeans series (yes I asked) I decided that ... Continue reading
2019-06-06 (first published: 2019-05-20)
989 reads
Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – June 2019 – Property functions
Yep. It’s time for your monthly homework session. You’ve finished last months right? Please turn it in over there. This ... Continue reading
2019-06-03
27 reads
I’m moving my permissions scripts to GitHub
I’ve written very few things that I’m more proud of than my permissions scripts, sp_SrvPermissions and sp_DBPermissions. These scripts are ... Continue reading
2019-05-30
60 reads
How was it done back in the day? T-SQL Tuesday #114
It’s TSQL Tuesday and Matthew McGiffen (b/t) is our host with a subject near and dear to my heart. Puzzles! ... Continue reading
2019-05-27 (first published: 2019-05-14)
478 reads
db_owner in msdb == sysadmin
This doesn’t require much in the way discussion. This isn’t exactly a huge issue since I don’t think granting db_owner ... Continue reading
2019-05-22 (first published: 2019-05-06)
535 reads
Security Learning Pathway at PASS Summit.
This year PASS is trying something new at PASS Summit. There are going to be Learning Pathways. A learning pathway ... Continue reading
2019-05-17
14 reads
What do you get with a Free account in #Azure?
The first thing I want to do is say thank you to Michael Crump (b/t). He tweeted out this: What ... Continue reading
2019-05-08 (first published: 2019-04-29)
1,238 reads
Why am I getting an NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS error when creating or altering a stored procedure?
If you have to deal with linked servers then you probably have or will run into the following error: Login ... Continue reading
2019-05-08
90 reads
Shrinking a large database with limited outage windows
Yes, I realize you shouldn’t shrink your database (data files or log files), but I recently had a case where ... Continue reading
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
1,595 reads
SQL Homework – May 2019 – SQLCMD and the DAC
Yes, it’s that time again. Time to do your homework. This month your homework is to set up the DAC ... Continue reading
2019-05-01
20 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Writing as an Art and...
Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
See possible answers