Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 5
If you’ve followed along to this point, and have assembled the pieces as I’ve given them to you, you’re now...
2013-11-26 (first published: 2013-11-19)
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Blog Posts
Disaster Recovery Planning
As a SQL Server DBA it is absolutely vital you regularly take backups of the databases you look after. If...
2013-11-26
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HammerDB SQL Server Benchmarking Utility
Mike Fal
Everyone here knows how much I enjoy using the DVDstore database benchmarking utility to benchmark a SQL Server instance....
2013-11-26
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Review: The Year Without Pants
The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun is about a former manager/now speaker and writer going to work for WordPress...
2013-11-26
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Setting your predicate arguments at run time Part: 2 MultiSelect
Introduction
A few days ago, I did a presentation for a Virtual Chapter meeting where I discussed SQL Server Data Access...
2013-11-26
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SQL Cruise competition, and the winner is …
Earlier this month SQL Cruise, (an initiative created by Tim Ford (B|T)) and Dell Software announced a competition to win...
2013-11-26
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SQL SERVER – SQL Server Configuration Checking – A Must Do for Every DBA – Notes from the Field #004
Originally posted on Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave:
[Note from Pinal]: This is a fourth episode of Notes from...
2013-11-26
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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – October 2013 update
Since my last post about the SSDT update for August, there have been two updates, each containing one fix:
The September...
2013-11-26
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The World Needs More A/B Testing
Have you ever been told that it’s ok to fail? Did it ever feel like it was really ok to...
2013-11-26
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Things I've Learned In Regards To Fill Factor:Quick Tips
I don't have much today... It's been a good week so far. I think I'm becoming a bit obsessed with...
2013-11-26
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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