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
23 reads
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
11 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
847 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
15 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
720 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
2,134 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
7,502 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
2,832 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
13,226 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
1,434 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers