Exploring permissions with sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions : TSQL Tuesday 101
Our host for T-SQL Tuesday this month is Jens Vestergaard (b/t) and he has asked about our favorite SSMS tool....
2018-04-10
2,698 reads
Kenneth Fisher
SSMS’s Dark Theme
There has been talk of a dark theme for SSMS for years. Does it exist, will it exist? Well, the...
2018-04-04
464 reads
SQL Homework – April 2018 – Indexes
This month we are going to look at a topic near and dear to both database developers and database administrators...
2018-04-02
307 reads
Storing a variable with a SELECT, and why it didn't work.
Using SELECT to store values into variables is an important technique, but you need to know some of the gotchas as well.
2018-04-02
6,044 reads
What’s the difference between Files and Filegroups?
tl;dr; Filegroups are a logical construct used to separate tables and indexes from each other, files are the physical construct...
2018-03-28
771 reads
DB_NAME() vs ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
I’d never seen ORIGINAL_DB_NAME until recently and I thought it would be interesting to highlight it out, and in particular...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2018-03-15)
2,869 reads
Introducing The Blame Game
Introducing the Blame Game! Someone has messed up the new anatomy application’s (Mr. Body) performance and no one is willing...
2018-03-26
285 reads
Moving a table using BCP and native format
You need to move a table from one instance to another with the following requirements:
The instances are on separate domains....
2018-03-21
364 reads
GDPR – After the restore
I joined in on an interesting conversation the other day on twitter. It was about some unusual ramifications of GDPR...
2018-03-19
395 reads
Simply Debugging
Debugging is a life skill. Yes, the term comes from IT (literally removing a bug from a computer believe it...
2018-03-19 (first published: 2018-03-07)
2,056 reads
Blogs
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned? See possible answers