Phil Factor demonstrates the correct use of the RETURN keyword in stored procedures or batches, to pass back a non-zero RETURN code to the calling process, informing it of the error. He also explains some of its misuses.
2019-09-12
In this tip we look at a way to stop the execution of a SSIS data flow task that is running by executing an outside process to stop the data flow immediately.
2019-09-11
SQL Clone 4 introduces a new access control feature called Teams, allowing granular control over the SQL Server instances, images and clones to which each group of users has access. Here James Murtagh explains how Teams makes it easier to manage the safe distribution of database copies throughout the organization, to the various teams that need them for development, testing, training or analysis.
2019-09-11
Step through a demonstration illustrating a sample deployment of SQL Server 2019 Always On Availability Group cluster on Azure AKS. You'll discover how to leverage the Microsoft Azure-hosted managed Kubernetes service referred to as AKS.
2019-09-10
Over 800 SQL Server professionals took part in the 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring survey. Travis Hoffacker takes a look at the report and advises what is now expected of a third-party monitoring tool based on the responses from the community.
2019-09-10
Greg Moore demonstrates how to work with the Get-Credential PowerShell cmdlet and secure strings when authenticating to an SFTP server.
2019-09-09
Kathi Kellenberger explains how to avoid build problems, when working with set of inter-dependent databases, by restoring or provisioning copies of all required databases to the development, build, or test instance.
2019-09-09
In this tip we look at a way to stop the execution of a SSIS data flow task that is running by executing an outside process to stop the data flow immediately.
2019-09-06
What if you have several people in the team who are responsible for data security across your databases, and they need to work together to develop and maintain the data masking configurations, which must then be applied consistently as part of an automated provisioning process? How should they do it? The solution turns out to be simple: source control.
2019-09-06
In this tip we look at some examples of how to get started with creating, modifying and deleting SQL Server stored procedures.
2019-09-05
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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
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I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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