Red Gate Dependency Tracker - Making Databases Into Moving Art
data structures are art
If anyone thinks that working with complex data structures is boring... I don't know what world they...
2016-04-27
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Sheldon Hull
- Website: https://www.sheldonhull.com
Automating SSMS 2016 Updates & Install
Figured I'd share a way to automate the SSMS 2016 updates until it gets it's own fancy self updater. I...
2016-04-26 (first published: 2016-04-19)
2,693 reads
Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids
Disclaimer: I have been provided with a free license because I am reviewing. This doesn't impact my assessment of the...
2016-04-14
1,184 reads
Failed to Initialize SQL Agent Log... not worthy
Moving system databases in SQL Server takes a bit of practice. I got that again, along with a dose of...
2016-04-01
8,196 reads
Calculating Some Max Mirror Stats
This turned out to be quite a challenge. I couldn’t find anything that made this very clean and straight forward...
2016-03-18
411 reads
Failover all databases to other server
Quick snippet I threw together to help with failing over synchronized databases to the other server in bulk. No way...
2016-03-18
808 reads
Previewing the new SSRS 2016 portal
Ran into an issue with the “Preview New Reporting Portal” link on a fresh install of 2016 giving me a...
2016-03-18
443 reads
SQL 2012 SP3 and entity framework conflict
the problem
An issue with SQL Server 2012 SP3 was identified that impacted EF4/5 due to additional datatypes in the dll....
2016-03-18
7,468 reads
TFS Work-Item Fancy Filtering
If you want to create a TFS query that would identify work items that have changed, but were not changed...
2016-03-18
417 reads
Should I use option(recompile)?
Should I use option(recompile)?
This will probably be a multiple stage discussion. The notes I’m providing today were sparked off of...
2016-02-02
6,731 reads
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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