How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?

The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005 to increase security of system metadata. SQL Server system...

HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT

Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...

HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT

Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...

HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT

Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are...

HOWTO-Get-T-SQL-Into-SSDT

Ok so you have created an SSDT project and are currently congratulating yourself on how awesome and cool you are but then you realise that your project is like...

Journey to Being a Consultant – Webinar Today

Today at 11am Central time I will be presenting a new session entitled “Journey to Being a Consultant” for the...

Make sure you back up the Service Master Key

I’m by no means an expert in SQL Server encryption. What I do know however, is that the Service Master...

Trust No One Implicitly

At the Charlotte BI Group meeting last night, one of the questions I was asked after I gave my talk...

What is a data lake?

A “data lake” is a storage repository, usually in Hadoop, that holds a vast amount of raw data in its...

A New Use Case for SQL Prompt – Shrinking Code

I thought this would work, but I wasn’t sure. I saw some code the other day like this:
DECLARE@charASCHAR(1);

SET@char=NULL;

SELECTISNULL(@char, 0);

SELECTCOALESCE(@char, 0);

SET@char='E';

SELECTISNULL(@char,...