What’s next III
In case you didn’t know I was given notice about a month and a half ago. Since I’ve talked about ... Continue reading
2022-08-04
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Kenneth Fisher
EXECUTE AS USER vs EXECUTE AS LOGIN
I use impersonation a lot. It’s a really easy way to check if someone has the permissions they are supposed ... Continue reading
2022-08-03 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Perspective
I recently passed the second anniversary of the start of my stay in the hospital. A lot has happened since ... Continue reading
2022-07-28
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You’re doing your POC wrong! : T-SQL Tuesday #152
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! Deborah Melkin (blog|twitter) is our host this month and she’d like to hear our opinion. A ... Continue reading
2022-07-27 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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SSMS Put pinned tabs in their own row
A while back (6 years ago 😲) I talked about how you can change the behavior of SSMS so that ... Continue reading
2022-07-21
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#PowershellBasics: Expanding the column width to avoid truncation
I was recently asked to get a list of all of the services running on one of the boxes we ... Continue reading
2022-07-20 (first published: 2022-07-07)
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#PowershellBasics: Multi-line commands
When I’m sharing code one of the things I hate most is having a scroll bar along the bottom. I ... Continue reading
2022-07-19
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#PowershellBasics: Write the output to a file.
Last week I posted about a request to get a list of services. The first problem I ran into was ... Continue reading
2022-07-14
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How do I tell if identity_insert is turned on and if so what table?
TLDR; The code to do this is below but it’s a bit hokey and probably isn’t worth it. It’s pretty ... Continue reading
2022-07-11 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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SQL Homework – July 2022 – Update your resume.
Resumes have been on my mind a lot recently. I’ve been thinking that I wish I’d kept mine up to ... Continue reading
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-07-05)
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Blogs
SQL Prompt Quick Access to Helper Code
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We’ve been doing some events as part of the Redgate Roadshow, and at one...
Eleven chapters of my data architecture book are available
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As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data...
Speaking at SQL Saturday Boston 2023
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Boston on...
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Works on all other sql2022 servers but not on production. - must be dropped
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Convert common Separated number to # table
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