What is the database property “Compatibility Level”
What is the database property Compatibility Level? I don’t get asked to write about specific subjects very often but in...
2015-07-08
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Kenneth Fisher
Blocking and deadlocking on purpose
Blocking and deadlocking are not things you typically want to do deliberately. But sometimes you need to test error handling...
2015-07-07 (first published: 2015-07-01)
2,567 reads
Zero to Speaker pt 2
A few months ago I wrote a post about the fact that I had actually submitted a session to PASS...
2015-07-03 (first published: 2015-06-29)
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Which user function do I use?
Earlier this week I was scripting out a table with some legacy columns (InsertDate and InsertBy for example). If you...
2015-06-30 (first published: 2015-06-24)
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Modifying the “New Query” template.
TLDR; Search for and modify the sqlfile.sql file.
During a recent T-SQL Tuesday Boris Hristov (b/t) taught me about SET NOEXEC...
2015-06-23 (first published: 2015-06-11)
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Copying a TDE database from one instance to another
I got my first real world experience with a TDE (transparent data encryption) database recently. For those who don’t know...
2015-06-22
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Pass TV
Recently Adam Machanic (b/t) was telling me about an interesting effect of the top operator. When I asked for an...
2015-06-17
661 reads
A walk-through of creating the Activity Tracking template using Extended Events.
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and that means T-SQL Tuesday time! T-SQL Tuesday is a blog party started...
2015-06-15 (first published: 2015-06-09)
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Rename a database
Renaming a database isn’t something you do frequently but it does have bit of a gotcha. First of all let’s...
2015-06-15
607 reads
Multiple Windows Groups with different default databases
A question came up at work the other day, mostly as a mind game, but you never know it might...
2015-06-08 (first published: 2015-05-28)
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
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...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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