A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #133 - Taking a Break
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month James McGillivray (blog | twitter) asks us about our views on...
2021-01-13
18 reads
Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
20 reads
2020 Year in Review
Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...
2021-01-04
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New-DbatoolsQuestion | Invoke-DbatoolsDiscussion -Platform Github
Chrissy LeMaire (blog | twitter) pinged me earlier this week to tell me about Github Discussions. It’s a new feature of Github which is similar to Stack Exchange, but...
2020-12-02
14 reads
Reflections on PASS Virtual Summit 2020
PASS Summit 2020 has wrapped up (or is in the process of wrapping up), and as with years past, I’m getting this written while the experience is still fresh...
2020-11-17
18 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #132 - Coping With the Pandemic
This week is a double-whammy of activity - T-SQL Tuesday and PASS Summit 2020. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month,...
2020-11-11
18 reads
Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
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Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
27 reads
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This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
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I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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