SQL Server 2012 Licensing VMs without SA
I ran across a blog talking about Microsoft licensing, and found it very interesting. I learned a few things, and...
2012-01-06
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Blog Posts
What’s Wrong with this Picture: A Database Misconfiguration Well Demonstrated
Recently, I was doing some testing/playing around on a particular database on my home test servers. After I was done,...
2012-01-06
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LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types
Today I’ll talk about the available JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences,...
2012-01-05
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Management Studio Split Tabs
This is by far the simplest and silliest post ever, but i just figured how to create vertical tabs in...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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Msg 7395: Unable to start a nested transaction
Happy new year, SQL peeps! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Last week was very quiet at work, but...
2012-01-05
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PASS Summit Eval – Extended Events
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had two sessions at the PASS Summit this past year in which I...
2012-01-05
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Safely Restart SQL Agent with Powershell
I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically
To generate the ALTER INDEX..DISABLE and the ALTER INDEX..REBUILD statements for all nonclustered indexes for a single table use the...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Login Auditing
In recent months I have been asked to ensure we are auditing both successful and failed logins, not just failed...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
You may fire up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (which allows you to run PowerShell commands to do cool SharePoint...
2012-01-05
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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
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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