70-457 Reviewer #13 Managing SQL Server Logins
This lesson covers managing security principals at the instance level. Security principals at this level allows access to the instance...
2013-11-10
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70-457 Reviewer #14 Database and Application Roles
This lesson is part two of lesson Reviewer #13 Managing SQL Server Logins. There is so much to cover about...
2013-11-10
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70-457 Reviewer #15 Implement Database Mirroring
This reviewer is part of lesson in Implementing High Availability in SQL Server 2012. This covers about 12% of the...
2013-11-10
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Strategizing your Index Maintenance in SQL Server
Index maintenance is part of the DBA’s life. Surely you have a maintenance task for this somewhere running daily or...
2013-09-28
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Poor Microsoft Doesn’t Understand What Tablets Are For
That’s the title of an article i came across this morning in Slate.com. I am not a big fan of...
2013-09-24
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Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Microsoft has release the CU update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1. To apply this package in your environment,...
2013-09-23
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Brad Shultz's blog on reviewing your database
Reblogged from SQL Studies: This is possibly the best blog I have every read on the subject of reviewing a...
2013-09-18
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CIO Report; 14 things you need to know about Data Storage Management
Reblogged from Imtech ICT UK Blog: Original Article: CIO recently published a detailed article on the 14 things you need...
2013-09-18
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Debugging database mail issues in your SQL Server with T-SQL
Problem. Your database mail suddenly stopped sending out email notifications on completed jobs and tasks. You try to send out...
2013-09-17
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10 signs you're not talking to a developer
Reblogged from the pluralsight blog: There are many types of developers out there. And while not all speak the same...
2013-09-16
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Blogs
Delta Lake over Spark Connect
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Generating Random Strings with GenAI
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other...
Heading to SQL Bits 2025
By Steve Jones
I’ll be at SQL Bits tomorrow, Saturday Jun 20, 2025 for the final day...
Forums
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
XML_COMPRESSION for existing tables
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers