SQL Server Object Dependency Viewer Revisited
A year ago I blogged about building a SQL Server 2008 Object Dependency Viewer based on a script by PowerShell...
2010-08-07
1,675 reads
Chad Miller
Quickly Script Out Replication Redux
Dave Levy (Blog|Twitter) posted a script in a blog post in which he uses a bit of SQL PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX)...
2010-08-03
1,398 reads
Making A SQLPS Module
If you’re working with PowerShell and SQL Server one of things you’ll want to to do is load the SQL...
2010-07-10
3,243 reads
Windows Search Enable Your Script Files
At the July 8th Tampa PowerShell User Group meeting, Ed Wilson (blog|twitter) gave a presentation on “PowerShell Best Practices.” One...
2010-07-10
646 reads
Scripting Linked Servers
A co-worked asked me to look at a T-SQL script I had written 8 years ago for scripting out linked...
2010-07-06
3,084 reads
Building A Remote Desktop Manager Cluster List
The Microsoft Clustering and High Availablity bloggers have taken noticed of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) utility from a...
2010-06-30
1,603 reads
PowerShell ETL Presentation
My thanks to everyone in attendence and PASS AppDev VC for inviting me to speak. I’ll post a link to...
2010-06-23
981 reads
Live Meeting Presentation – ETL with PowerShell
On Tuesday June 22nd 9 PM Eastern I”m presenting ETL with PowerShell for PASS AppDev VC—a virtual chapter of Professional...
2010-06-20
1,020 reads
Building A Remote Desktop Manager Connection List
Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan is a free download from Microsoft for managing multiple remote desktop connections. The functionality...
2010-06-15
2,267 reads
SQLIse A PowerShell SQL Server Query Tools Gets an Update
After the first release of SQLIse (“SQL Ice”)--a basic IDE for T-SQL that includes ability to edit, execute, parse, format...
2010-06-04
1,574 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Forums
SQL Server 2022 order by bug?
Hi, I was using order by on a column with characters and saw something...
SQL Server 2025 Build List
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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers