T-SQL Tuesday 150: My first technical job
I am glad to be contributing to the 150th blog party started by Adam Machanic and has helped so many get our blogs going. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Mala Mahadevan
T-SQL Tuesday 148: Finding and keeping a consistent audience, and what works
This months’ T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Rie Merrit (t|b) as part of Azure Community Group lead. Her call is to pick one or two things that...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-08)
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Thrilled to #BITS!
2021 was a strange year…mid way through a pandemic, enormously depressing on many fronts to me..and yet, it bought with it some unexpected joys. I never imagined, in the...
2022-02-09
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Introducing ScriptDOM
I’ve been meaning to get a series of blog posts started on this topic. A twitter conversation from yesterday finally pushed me to it. Last year, I was tasked...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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Parsing scripts with ScriptDOM
In the last post I wrote about what ScriptDOM is and why it is useful. From this post, I will explain how it can be put to use. What...
2022-01-28 (first published: 2022-01-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?
I am trying to get started on blogging again this year…T-SQL Tuesday came in handy with a great topic. This month’s host is Andy Yun(t |b). Andy’s challenge for...
2022-01-21 (first published: 2022-01-11)
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TSQL-Tuesday 143: Short Code Examples
I decided to resume tech blogging after a long break and this tsql-tuesday came in handy. This month’s blog part is hosted by John McCormack (B|T). He would like...
2021-11-05 (first published: 2021-10-13)
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Formatting T-SQL Scripts using ScriptDOM and PowerShell
Well-formatted scripts are always easier to maintain and enhance readability to high degree. Formatting standards are an important part of coding standards anywhere and if not, they need to be. If there are a large number of scripts this can add up to a significant amount of time needed to maintain them. It is also […]
2021-08-27
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Crocs and Naps….
I was planning a blog post for a TSQL2sday..instead would up writing an obituary blog post for a dear friend who passed on yesterday. Brian Moran was among the...
2021-07-23 (first published: 2021-07-10)
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Scripting using SMO
I will be delivering a lightning talk at DataMinutes on June 7th on this topic. I thought it would help to write a synopsis of what am going to...
2021-06-06
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Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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