Why I Don’t Like Shared Development Databases
Today, Kendra explains why she doesn't like shared development databases.
2026-05-15 (first published: 2020-01-31)
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Kendra Little
Developer Time is More Valuable Than Ever
Today, Kendra Little talks about how DevOps adoption affects developer productivity and time.
2025-05-23 (first published: 2020-02-14)
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What Write Ahead Logging Is and Why It Matters
Kendra Little talks about write ahead logging in SQL Server, one of the basic concepts that developers and DBAs should understand.
2024-06-12 (first published: 2020-01-20)
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Why Early Code Review is Important for Database Deployments
Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
2024-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-07)
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2020-02-25
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2020-02-21
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Self-selection Reteaming: It’s Not Crazy, It’s the Future
Today, Kendra Little talks about reteaming.
2020-02-21
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2020-02-20
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2020-02-18
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2020-02-17
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Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers