Using @@ROWCOUNT can be a bit tricky
@@ROWCOUNT is a very useful system variable that returns the number of rows read/affected by the previous statement. It’s frequently...
2015-09-16
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Kenneth Fisher
What SQL Server components are installed on this machine?
Figuring out what components of SQL Server are installed on a particular machine has always been a task that has...
2015-09-14
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Where you should start when managing an enterprise
This T-SQL Tuesday we are hosted by one of the DBA’s of the night: Jen McCown (b/t). She want’s us...
2015-09-11 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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The default instance has a name
The default instance actually has an instance name. It’s MSSQLSERVER. This is probably familiar to a lot of you but...
2015-09-07 (first published: 2015-08-31)
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Learning Regular Expressions
I’m a regular watcher of the Midnight DBA Webshow and one day they mentioned regular expressions. Not a new term...
2015-09-02
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SSMS’s Clipboard Manager
The other day Richie Rump (b/t) mentioned something called a clipboard manager on twitter. I’ll admit I had to ask...
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-19)
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The 30 minute rule
In one of my first IT jobs (back in the dark ages) we had something called the thirty minute rule....
2015-08-26
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Pulling data from the error log
The other day I was asked to pull a list of errors from the SQL Server log into a table...
2015-08-25 (first published: 2015-08-17)
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The tail of the log
The tail of the log
A little while back I was feeling overwhelmed by the number of blog posts ideas that...
2015-08-24
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Getting and storing a high precision datetime
Earlier today I was working on a project where I was recording some time stamps. In order to get as...
2015-08-13
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Blogs
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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
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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