Your Community, Your Voice, Your Forum
For me, one of the most rewarding things about blogging are the conversations we have together. The opportunity to connect, share and grow with passionate people from all over...
2013-05-21
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Your Community, Your Voice, Your Forum
For me, one of the most rewarding things about blogging are the conversations we have together.
The opportunity to connect, share...
2013-05-21
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Getting Information from a Database using Dynamic SQL
I ran across someone that was building a restore script to automated their restores. This person wanted their script to...
2013-05-20
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #33
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-05-20
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Roll Logs – Backup Recovery
Rolling log files for a day, especially with 15 or even 5 minute log backups is a pain at best....
2013-05-20 (first published: 2013-05-15)
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SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate through All SQL Instances – Example Transaction Log Shrinking
There are many ways to execute SQL’s or T-SQL’s across listed SQL Instances. Most of us might have faced and...
2013-05-20
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SQL Server – Show/Hide Results Pane in Management Studio 2012
In earlier version of SQL Server Management Studio (2005, 2008 and 2008 R2) you can show/hide results pane using keyboard...
2013-05-20
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SQLSaturday Redmond(SQLSat212) – A quick recap !
That was indeed a great day at Redmond. I had a great time talking to some of the best SQLServer minds...
2013-05-20
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SQLSaturday#200 PA Event Update!
With less
than two weeks to go until SQLSaturday#200 at 45
Liberty Blvd., Suite 210 Malvern, PA 19355, Malvern, PA, 19355 they're...
2013-05-20
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Indexes – Understanding basic types and their components
The biggest problem developers and newer DBAs have with understanding indexes is that you don’t realize when you’re using the...
2013-05-18
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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