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Future Data Driven

I was honored to speak at Future Data Driven last year. This year has a great lineup with some fantastic sessions on data related topics. Register today for the...

2022-09-16 (first published: )

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Fast Fingers-Function Keypads

This is the third in the series of tools and technologies that I use to deal with the loss of functionality in my hands and arms. Check out this article for...

2022-09-14 (first published: )

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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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