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PASS Data Community Summit 2022

As I write this, it’s the weekeend before PASS Data Community Summit 2022 and depending upon when I finish, it’ll post either shortly before SQL Saturday Oregon, or in...

2022-11-12

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Cloning in Snowflake

Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...

2022-11-11

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A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler

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Prepping for Certification, Part 2 of ?

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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server

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Is Data Modeling Common?

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Question of the Day

Getting The Database Name

I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.

sqlcmd -S localhost -E
At the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
GO
What is returned?

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