I came across an issue with SSMS not loading properly recently. Regardless of launching from the start menu with or without administrator, SSMS would error out. Due to this...
2023-01-18 (first published: 2023-01-09)
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I’m honored to be heading back to SQL Bits 2023. I was selected to deliver one session, in the professional development track. With so many people submitting, I’m not...
2023-01-17
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Today’s coping tip is to learn something new and share it with others. I do this all the time. It’s a part of my job, and I did this...
2023-01-16
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Today we have launched Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee) Dublin 2023, Ireland’s free, community led, Microsoft Data Platform event. We tried in 2020 but certain global events prevented us from...
2023-01-16 (first published: 2023-01-09)
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I had a request regarding how to identify unused indexes across all databases on a SQL Server instance (rather than just the current one). I’ve written this script before...
2023-01-16 (first published: 2023-01-05)
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The other day I managed to confuse myself. I was looking up some information from an Extended Events (XE) session, but my eyes were playing a trick on me....
2023-01-16
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In my experiments with the Flyway CLI (fwcli), I’m finding some interesting behavior, some of which is catching my by surprise. This post looks at the baseline command and...
2023-01-16
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Today’s coping tip is to take five minutes to sit still and breathe. Sounds simple. I find this to be very challenging. If I’m just sitting here, why am...
2023-01-13
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As we’ve seen in previous posts, the process of turning TDE on for an empty database with no data is instantaneous. Most of the time though you’ll be applying...
2023-01-13
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When we consider how secure a form of encryption is there are two things we want to consider. Let’s discuss each of these in turn. What are We Protected...
2023-01-13 (first published: 2023-01-03)
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Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers