SQL Quiz Part 2: Career Challenges
I’ve read a number of responses from Chris Shaw’s first DBA networking quiz. I missed out on the first one,...
2008-12-10
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Blog Posts
You're Not Dumb...And Neither am I
One of the things I'm not fond of is self-deprecation. Smacking yourself on the forehead when you screw up a...
2008-12-10
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Are You Security Minded?
It's fun to just sit and talk with people, never know what you'll learn or be forced to rethink based...
2008-12-09
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DBAs Still in High Demand
With the world economy on the downside, there is at least one bright light, and that is DBAs are still...
2008-12-09
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Leaving Live
Last week Steve Ballmer had issued a challenge to MVPs to have them try Live Search instead of their regular...
2008-12-09
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A Custom Trace
I have to admit that when I had a performance problem with some code, I would often fire up Profiler...
2008-12-08
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Managing By The Numbers Part 2
Managing by the numbers often gets a bad name among employees because it can lead to a lot of gaming...
2008-12-08
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Tampa Code Camp Notes
I attended the Tampa Code Camp this past weekend. It was located at the Kforce Building in Tampa, a very...
2008-12-08
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Trying to Figure Out if SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Will Benefit You?
SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise Edition) offers row and page compression, which can potentially offer a boost in disk I/O in...
2008-12-08
1,501 reads
Using Result Set as Variable in Stored Procedure
I’ve been asked several times lately from non-SQL developers that are sometimes required to do some quick SQL work how...
2008-12-08
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers