In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...
2017-01-20
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Brent Ozar and he’s asked everyone to find interesting bug or enhancement requests in Microsoft Connect related to SQL Server.
The Connect item doesn’t have...
2017-01-10
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Odds are, you’ve got more than one application or script accessing your database or SQL Server instance at any given time. You’re probably stacking them on a small number...
2017-01-02
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The Rochester, NY chapter of PASS is holding our 6th annual SQL Saturday on April 29th, 2017! As always, RIT is hosting our event on campus.
SQL Saturday is a free day of training centered...
2016-12-23
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This post is in support of Tim Ford’s (blog|twitter) #iwanttohelp challenge. And also written because this has burned me twice in the past 3 months and by blogging about it,...
2016-11-26
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It’s 2016. So why are we still dealing with T-SQL code and design patterns that were designed 7 versions ago?
In the 15 years I have been using databases professionally, we’re still...
2016-10-11
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Something in SQL Server that isn’t always obvious to beginners is that when you create a default value for a column on a table, SQL Server creates a constraint...
2016-01-19
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This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @eleightondick [[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes @tomsql Adventures With TomSQL, aka Tom Staab @EdDebug [Automatically name primary key constraints in SSDT...
2015-11-19
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I have a situation where I need to retrieve the data in an encrypted column from, but don’t want to give all my users access to the symmetric key...
2015-11-18
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This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @arrowdrive Anders On SQL: T-SQL Tuesday #72: Data modelling gone extremely wrong @rabryst Time After Time - An Introduction to Temporal Tables in SQL...
2015-11-12
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In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
I don't see a PowerBI forum, so I'm posting here. I have a need...
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