Centralized Management Server 101
Registered Servers
I've used Central Management Server registered servers in SSMS for primarily one purpose, saving connections. 🙂 This is definitely not...
2016-10-16
392 reads
Sheldon Hull
- Website: https://www.sheldonhull.com
Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
If you need to do code comparison on a lot of files in Visual Studio, I ran across an extension...
2016-10-12
794 reads
Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
Update: 2017-07-14
Still find this incredibly awesome! Developer just updated for Visual Studio 2017 after a lot of hard work. Github...
2016-10-12
268 reads
Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way
I had some cross database comparisons that I wanted to simplify, but ensuring the collation matched. The amount of objects...
2016-10-10
349 reads
Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way
I had some cross database comparisons that I wanted to simplify, but ensuring the collation matched. The amount of objects...
2016-10-10
110 reads
Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view
I discovered a bit of info on working with float values, while creating a hash value that contained a float...
2016-10-08
3,835 reads
Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view
I discovered a bit of info on working with float values, while creating a hash value that contained a float...
2016-10-08
142 reads
SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu
Didn't see SQL 2016 Configuration manager in the start menu. Ran a quick search to see if this was a...
2016-09-30 (first published: 2016-09-21)
1,933 reads
Setting DBCC 1222 on startup
The following command is run to gain details on deadlocks.
DBCC TRACEON (1222,-1)
However, once the SQL instance is restarted this...
2016-09-26 (first published: 2016-09-19)
1,744 reads
SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu
Didn't see SQL 2016 Configuration manager in the start menu. Ran a quick search to see if this was a...
2016-09-21
94 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Multiple Escape Characters
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers