SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP Available
Microsoft has made the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 SP2 available for download. This is Build 3798,...
2010-07-08
1,202 reads
Glenn Berry
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0
I have been playing around with the new Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2 tool for the...
2010-07-07
805 reads
Electricity Conservation and Solar PV Power
Since I got my grid-tied solar PV system on my roof turned on almost two weeks ago, I have gotten...
2010-07-01
3,091 reads
How To Stay Current with SQL Server Cumulative Updates
Since the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has been using what they call an Incremental Servicing Model for SQL...
2010-06-23
2,182 reads
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 2
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) today. It became available for download today, and...
2010-06-23
2,886 reads
Detecting and Reducing VLFs in SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Transaction Log Files
One common, but often undetected issue that I see with SQL Server databases is a very high number of virtual...
2010-06-22
3,468 reads
Inverter Obsession, or Why I am Starting to Hate Clouds
After getting my new grid-tied solar PV system turned on and operational on June 18, 2010, I have become temporarily...
2010-06-21
765 reads
Promoted to TempDB by SQLRockstar
I noticed today that fellow SQL Server MVP Thomas LaRock (blog | twitter) had updated his SQL Server blog rankings, and...
2010-06-21
726 reads
3.15Kw Grid-Tied Solar PV System Online
I took a day off work so I could be here when Namaste Solar and IREA came out to my...
2010-06-18
867 reads
Teaching ICT 4462 – Transact SQL Programming at Denver University, University College
I will be teaching a special five week version of ICT 4462 – Transact SQL Programming at Denver University, University College...
2010-06-15
625 reads
Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
Forums
Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Is Data Modeling Common?
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers