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Blog Posts
How do I force a SQL Login to change it’s password on next login
Forcing someone to change their password on a periodic basis is a pretty common thing, and any time I’ve gotten ... Continue reading
2019-06-19 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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Powershell script to find new servers in an AD domain
This is actually part of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there...
2019-06-19 (first published: 2019-06-06)
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What is a container anyway?
Recently there was a thread on Twitter which established that a lot of IT people didn’t know the difference between virtual machines and containers. |???????|| CONTAINERS || ARE NOT...
2019-06-19
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What permissions do temp stored procedures use?
In a performance tuning class I recently took with Brent Ozar (b/t) he mentioned temporary stored procedures and an interesting ... Continue reading
2019-06-19
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Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Globally Distributed Azure Cosmos DB
Let’s use the Azure portal to build a globally distributed Cosmos DB. Before doing this, why would you ? what are the benefits? Regional based. By this I mean...
2019-06-18
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Implicit Conversion Fail
Implicit conversions are not uncommon in the computing world and can be viewed as kind of a fail-safe for when we don't quite follow decent practices when designing the...
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-31)
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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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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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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