2019 Year in Review
As we open 2020 (and the house is still quiet on this New Year’s Morning), I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2019 was...
2020-01-01
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Blog Posts
Book Review: T-SQL Window Functions by Itzik Ben-Gan
A couple of years back Itzik Ben-Gan (the T-SQL guru) wrote the book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. It’s has been one of my most...
2020-01-01 (first published: 2019-12-19)
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Cannot Open Backup Device
When running into error 1326, it makes plenty of sense to try to create a backup dump device (only as a testing exercise) as well as test the connectivity...
2020-01-01
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Cannot Open Backup Device
When running into error 1326, it makes plenty of sense to try to create a backup dump device (only as a testing exercise) as well as test the connectivity...
2020-01-01
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Looking ahead to 2020
This week all I want to say is Happy New Year, and may 2020 be the start of a successful decade for you. Live, love, learn. Remember to take...
2020-01-01
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POWERSHELL -SQL Assessment
June/July 2019 Microsoft – powershell is providing another great feature with SMO and SQL Server module as SQL Assessment. This is a great feature where Microsoft- SQL Server is...
2020-01-01
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Document, document, document
Happy New Year! It being New Year’s, at least by the Gregorian calendar, I thought we could make this month’s ... Continue reading
2020-01-01
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Why Don’t People Use Columnstore Indexes?
I saw this question on SQL Server Central the other day and had an immediate, visceral reaction. I know why. Now, before I explain my answer, please, let me...
2020-01-01 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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Happy New Year – Our Top Posts of 2019
With the New Year fast approaching and maybe already having arrived depending on where you are, we thought we’d do a quick recap of our top 5 posts from...
2019-12-31
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Negative Port Numbers
Validating your server setup is an integral component of your duties as a SQL Server DBA. When performing those validations, it is possible to run into an intriguing difference...
2019-12-31
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Blogs
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...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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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):
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