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
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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
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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
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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
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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
785 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)
2,902 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
291 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
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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
409 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)
2,064 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
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Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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