Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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Blog Posts
Database In Recovery Redux
One of the more gut-wrenching experiences of a DBA is to have a database get stuck in recovery. This typically happens when the server was rebooted unexpectedly and typically...
2019-04-08
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Database In Recovery Redux
One of the more gut-wrenching experiences of a DBA is to have a database get stuck in recovery. This typically happens when the server was rebooted unexpectedly and typically...
2019-04-08
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Generating a Jupyter Notebook for Glenn Berry’s Diagnostic Queries with PowerShell
The March release of Azure Data Studio now supports Jupyter Notebooks with SQL kernels. This is a very interesting feature...
2019-04-08 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Learning Jupyter Notebooks
I’m starting the process of learning how to use Jupyter Notebooks. Notebooks are documents that contain live code, commentary, results, pictures and more. Jupyter Notebooks are used for presentations,...
2019-04-08
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My Very First Azure SQL Database
I recently delivered my very first SQL Saturday pre-con for SQL Saturday Richmond on Friday, March 29, 2019. You can read about that adventure here. As part of the...
2019-04-08
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The Curiously Large CASE Statement
A powerful little expression in SQL Server is the CASE statement. The CASE statement has the ability to “transform” data...
2019-04-08 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Weekly reading 10#
New week has started. 1/2 of the Coding Family Team has exams at school today. We were all busy last weeks…. But now it ends! And this must be...
2019-04-08
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Delivering My First Pre-Con
I didn’t announce this before it happened because I didn’t want to “jinx” myself, but I am happy to say that it’s finally happened. I have delivered my very...
2019-04-06
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4 Reasons To Avoid VARCHAR(8000)
Watch this week’s episode on YouTubeWhen first learning SQL Server, I had the brilliant idea of defining every column on...
2019-04-05 (first published: 2019-03-19)
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Blogs
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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