How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
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Blog Posts
How to Run DBCC CHECKDB to Check SQL Database Integrity
Database Console Command CHECKDB (DBCC CHECKDB)is used to check the integrity (physical & logical) of objects in a SQL Server database.The...
2018-01-17
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Secure or fast? Secure, obviously …
By now you have probably seen the news about a major flaw in the design of CPUs from all major...
2018-01-17
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SQL Server 2017 DMVs and DMFs for DBAs
Dynamic management views (DMVs) and dynamic management functions (DMFs) are system views and system functions that return metadata of the system...
2018-01-17
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Statistics Use, Extended Events and Execution Plans
Query tuning ain’t easy.
Figuring out which index is getting used is one step, and generally simple, look at the execution...
2018-01-17 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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Using Windows stored credentials to connect to SQL in containers
I work with SQL Server in containers pretty much exclusively when testing code and one of my real bug bears...
2018-01-17
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Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
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Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
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Azure Portal – Bad Request
I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my...
2018-01-16
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Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads
Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database...
2018-01-16 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Liability for AI Errors
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
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Pro SQL Server Internals
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers