SQL Server Role Membership
How well do you know the security in your SQL instances? Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions? SQL Server provides a few methods for you to find...
2011-04-05
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SQL Server Role Membership
How well do you know the security in your SQL instances? Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions? SQL...
2011-04-05
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SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
2011-04-05
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This appears to be a system procedure..but it isn’t!
G’day,
Recently, I was browsing through my database server when suddenly under the “System Stored Procedures” folder of the master database...
2011-04-05
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To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
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T-SQL UPPER(): Change an all lowercase string to uppercase
The T-SQL UPPER() command allows you to change a lowercase string to an uppercase string.
For example, it will allow you to change the word...
2011-04-05
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Updated Overlapping Statistics Scripts
Last year I published a script for identifying automatically generated column statistics that overlapped index statistics. I've updated the script...
2011-04-05
1,697 reads
#Meme Monday
Use extended events; they work – and make you appear magical.
– “Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less”...
2011-04-04
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 4
Day 4 of this series is about the upcoming AMD “Bulldozer” family of processors that is due to be released...
2011-04-04
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A SQL Story in Eleven Words or Less
Tom LaRock (blog | twitter) proposed a Meme Monday and his first choice of topics was to write a SQL Server...
2011-04-04
700 reads
Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Five Intelligent Query Processing Features in SQL Server 2022 That Quietly Tune Your Workload
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Checking the Error Log I
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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