Certificate Based Application Roles
What if I told you that you could sign an assembly that your Windows application uses with a certificate, load...
2010-11-30
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Adventures in SQL
Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
The other day I was asked to provide the port number that a SQL Server instance was listening on. As...
2010-11-29
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How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell?
Today’s script took a long time to write. The concepts are fairly simple and the resulting script is quite trivial...
2010-11-24
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Careful with the New MCM Requirements
Ever since I first heard about the Microsoft Certified Master program I have been interested. The prestige of the certification...
2010-11-23
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Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
I know I do!
The trick is to properly manage your VLFs.
What are VLFs? The short anser is that VLF...
2010-11-19
2,204 reads
Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
Today’s post is a quick one that came out of a conversation on Twitter. To make a long story short,...
2010-11-15
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 16
I recently had to track down a rogue process that was failing to log in on one of my servers....
2010-11-12
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A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database
There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...
2010-11-05
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When is that Restore Going to Finish?
I spent a good portion of last weekend restoring databases from backup due to a large release. Nothing went wrong,...
2010-10-27
847 reads
Stop Forgetting the DAC
From time to time I hear of DBAs that had to restart the SQL Server service on a 2005 or...
2010-10-06
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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