Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
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Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
7 reads
Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your...
2011-08-23
839 reads
Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your current session in a table. Useful when you forget...
2011-08-23
12 reads
Dallas Tech Fest – Demo Files for SQL Server CLR: An Introduction
Demo files from my presentation at Dallas Tech Fest 2011.
SQL Server CLR – An Introduction – Dallas Tech Fest 2011
2011-08-12
714 reads
Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app
In a continuation of my previous LOGON TRIGGER post.
A downside to SQL logins is that anyone with the username / password...
2011-06-18
2,133 reads
Locking While Dropping or Altering an Index
Yesterday I was trying to drop some hypothetical indexes in production against a fairly active table. I started causing blocking...
2011-05-12
7,465 reads
Disable SQL Agent Jobs with PowerShell
I had a need today to disable all of our admin jobs while I moved our admin database to another...
2011-04-25
2,820 reads
Get all SERVERPROPERTY values for SQL Server
A quick script to grab all the SERVERPROPERTY() values from a SQL instance in a table. Useful when you forget...
2011-04-14
13,127 reads
Notes for Moving BizTalk’s Databases
Yesterday, I was tasked with helping a team move their BizTalk databases to another server. These are my notes for...
2011-04-08
1,429 reads
Blogs
The CDO’s Playbook for AI Driven Decision Making
By Chris Yates
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no...
sp_snapshot – The easy way to take database snapshots of one or more databases – V3.0
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
SELECT *
SELECT * feels convenient, but in SQL Server it bloats I/O, burns network bandwidth,...
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combining a param value with widcards in a foreach loop files property
Hi, it isnt clear from the web if something like this should work as...
Extract sql data in psh
# Load ImportExcel module Import-Module ImportExcel -ErrorAction Stop # File paths $outFile = "C:\Reports\SQLReport.xlsx"...
caught off guard by some greek lettering in a warehouse feed
Hi we run 2019 standard. Our warehouse's ssis based etl is klunky but so...
Question of the Day
Vector Datatype
The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?
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