2018-02-07
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
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The difference between blogging about something you know, and something you are learning (Love blogging! Live!)
Close but you need to blog about learning while blogging about the difference of blogging when you are learning something...
2018-01-31
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How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is...
2018-01-29
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What’s dbo?
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems...
2018-01-29 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Who should own the database?
TL;DR; SA, or if you are really paranoid then you can create a disabled SQL login with minimal permissions and...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the...
2018-01-24
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How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
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Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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2018-01-10
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers