SSMS Quick Tip
Today’s quick tip is for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). From time to time when I’m speaking I’ll get a question on how I pulled up help for a...
2020-05-14 (first published: 2020-04-30)
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Blog Posts
TIL: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory
Another blog post, another dbatools command. Today’s command: Get-DbaAgentJobHistory Basic command, gets all the job history info and pipes it to gridview, because there’s a LOT of info here....
2020-05-14
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What is Hyper-V? and how to enable it?
Hyper-V is a Microsoft feature to create a virtualized environment. Hyper-V is available in your windows OS and you need to enable it from “Turn On or Off Windows...
2020-05-14
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Adding Analysis Services (SSAS) to your SQL Server instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a fairly simple task, but recently...
2020-05-13
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Clustered Index Key – Natural or Surrogate?
This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of...
2020-05-13 (first published: 2020-04-28)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 12: IS DISTINCT FROM
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2020-05-13 (first published: 2020-04-29)
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Daily Coping 13 May 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-05-13
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How SQL Server stores data types: integers and decimals
Last time we looked at the internals of how dates and times are stored in SQL Server. This week we’re going to look at how numbers are stored. This...
2020-05-13
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Installing the #SQLPrompt Public Preview in ADS
The SQL Prompt Public preview extension for Azure Data Studio is out and you can add this easily. This is a quick post showing a few ways to install...
2020-05-13
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Running Azure from my android phone
The other day I had a random thought. I wonder if there is a version of Azure Portal for Android. ... Continue reading
2020-05-13
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
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...
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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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