Changing a Drive Letter with PowerShell
Here is a short but sweet post on how to change the drive letter of a partition. Despite using my best Google skills I couldn’t find an example that...
2021-06-07 (first published: 2021-05-21)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 7 Jun 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-06-07
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Database Fundamentals #30: Create Foreign Keys With T-SQL
You can create foreign keys using TSQL roughly the same way as you created primary keys. You can either use the ALTER TABLE statement to add the foreign key,...
2021-06-07 (first published: 2021-05-24)
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
10 reads
Scripting using SMO
I will be delivering a lightning talk at DataMinutes on June 7th on this topic. I thought it would help to write a synopsis of what am going to...
2021-06-06
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Azure Auditing, Monitoring & Alerting
Auditing, monitoring and alerting are security & performance tools that track activities inside a database and generates log events and alerts when a predefined event(more...)
2021-06-05
12 reads
#PowershellBasics: Writing to the screen
Writing to the screen is a really basic debugging technique. That said, since I’m really new with Powershell this is ... Continue reading
2021-06-04 (first published: 2021-05-20)
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Azure SQL database backup & restore
Database backup and restore strategy is vital in preserving data for disaster recovery, compliance or fixing human error. In a business critical application, data need(more...)
2021-06-04
10 reads
Computed Columns for Grouping–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran into someone trying to do some...
2021-06-04 (first published: 2021-05-19)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers