Daily Coping 18 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be creative, cook, draw, write, paint, make, or inspire. While I do play some guitar, I’m not much for painting. Certainly I write a...
2022-11-18
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Blog Posts
Data Manipulation with Word and Excel
Recently I had to go through some training that asked me to evaluate some text. I needed to tally some data up, and decided Word and Excel were quick...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-31-2022
Hello Dear Reader! Last week was Halloween and I hope you all had a fantastic time. Halloween has long been my favorite holiday. The cost of participation is imagination,...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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#PASSDataSummit – Keynote 2 Live Blogging
Happy to be chosen to live blog the keynote events out at the PASSDataSummit in Seattle, Washington this week. This page will be updated through the Keynotes, all you...
2022-11-17
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Daily Coping 17 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to try out a new way of being physically active. My routine for physical activity is yoga 2-3 times a week, weight lifting a couple...
2022-11-17
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SQL Server 2022 is Here!
SQL Server 2022 becoming generally available was announced on Nov 16th 2022. This is the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, which is pretty exciting. A major Azure-enabled...
2022-11-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #156 - Wrap Up
Foreword
Thank you everyone for participating! There is a total of 15 submissions and thanks to them, I’ve widened my perspective.
The order of the posts is chosen at random.
Greg Moore
Contribution|Blog|Twitter
Greg...
2022-11-17
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#PASSDataSummit – Keynote 1 Live Blogging
Happy to be chosen to live blog the keynote events out at the PASSDataSummit in Seattle, Washington this week. This page will be updated through the Keynotes, all you...
2022-11-16
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Creating a STONITH resource for a pacemaker cluster on VMWare virtual machines
A while back I wrote a post about creating a pacemaker cluster to run SQL Server availability group using the new Ubuntu images in Azure. Recently I had to...
2022-11-16 (first published: 2022-11-03)
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Daily Coping 16 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to change your normal routine today and notice how you feel. I am a person who likes a routine. While I travel a lot and...
2022-11-16
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Blogs
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Prepping for Certification, Part 2 of ?
By Brian Kelley
The advantage of understanding the make-up of the exam: I can tailor my efforts...
PASS Data Summit 2025 Recap
By Tim Mitchell
Last week, I attended the annual PASS Data Summit in Seattle. This was the...
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Getting The Database Name
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