Log Shipping – Standby Mode
Hello, dear blog reader. This week’s blog is coming to you from the home office. Finally, my son is back in school, and the house has some peace. For...
2022-09-05 (first published: 2022-08-23)
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Blog Posts
Why is security important in a dev environment?
I was asked a rather interesting question during an interview recently. It went something like this: Your resume says you’ve ... Continue reading
2022-09-05 (first published: 2022-08-23)
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Daily Coping 2 Sept 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-09-02
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Import a CSV with a Header Row using BCP–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Here are some hints to get started. I...
2022-09-02 (first published: 2022-08-22)
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The book that made me love goal-setting
Pete Wilkinson’s book “Unstoppable” finally made visualizations and goals make sense to me. Here's a review!
The post The book that made me love goal-setting appeared first on Jen McCown.
2022-09-02 (first published: 2022-08-16)
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Daily Coping 1 Sep 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-09-01
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Daily Coping 31 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-31
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New parameter in sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions: @CopyTo
I’ve added a new parameter to my permissions scripts (well, just the main two for now). Fair warning, it’s in ... Continue reading
2022-08-31 (first published: 2022-08-18)
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pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates and SQL Server unique constraints
I’ve now helped people with this issue a few times, so I thought I should blog it for anyone else that runs into the “mystery”. Here’s the scenario: You...
2022-08-31 (first published: 2022-08-20)
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Daily Coping 30 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-30
10 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Forums
SQL Server 2022 order by bug?
Hi, I was using order by on a column with characters and saw something...
SQL Server 2025 Build List
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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret...
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 -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers