Notes From The May 2014 MagicPASS Meeting
Quick notes:
About a dozen people attended, attributed to the combination of having the meeting on a different than usual night...
2014-05-29
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Blog Posts
Quick Tips–SSMS Select a vertical block
I saw this years ago in a presentation from Aaron Bertrand. At the time I thought it was super cool...
2014-05-29
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The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped
Problem
You are trying to drop a database user, but are getting the following error message:
The database principal owns a schema...
2014-05-29
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The End of the Mentoring Experiment
Back in April 2011 Steve Jones and I launched The Mentoring Experiment. We had some ideas and some goals, but...
2014-05-29
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We’re Giving Away SQLSaturday Orlando Vans!
We’re in full marketing mode here in Orlando, looking for ways to grow attendance for our next SQLSaturday coming up...
2014-05-29
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Auditing and Event SubClasses
A recent discussion got me to thinking about Auditing. To be honest, it got started with a complaint about some documentation that seemed overly light about the various fields...
2014-05-28
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Avoiding a split brain in database mirroring
You’re utilizing the database mirroring high-availability feature, configured to be in the High Safety mode with automatic failover, which means...
2014-05-28 (first published: 2014-05-22)
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 14
Quick notes today:
Event team likes first flyer (retro) better than the second one (doesn’t have enough why, doesn’t use space...
2014-05-28
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Complexity. How it is calculated.
What are the magic pink numbers you can see in Code Outline window?The answer is very simple - these are Code Complexity...
2014-05-28 (first published: 2014-05-23)
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How Does Disabling an Index Affect the Index Usage DMV Counters
A question was posted to #SQLHelp on Twitter asking, if disabling an Index would clear the index usage counters stored in the SQL Server Dynamic Management Views(DMVs)? Great question! Not one...
2014-05-28
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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