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,...

Audit who Dropped the Database

In the first article on this topic (which can be read here), I discussed the problem of having a database get dropped and the need to find out who...

Connecting SQLite to SQL Server with PowerShell

This post is part of Ed Leighton-Dick’s SQL New Blogger Challenge. Please follow and support these new (or reborn) bloggers.
I’m working with a number of SQLite databases as extra data...

Documentation: Are You Ready?

Would your coworkers know how to handle your job if you weren’t there?
This question was top-of-mind for me last week...