Habits and Activities for De-Stressing
I was chatting on FaceBook today with a guy from my church who is learning to be a network engineer. He's...
2009-10-22
920 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Review: ASUS Eee PC 1005HA Netbook
Our home desktop was several years old and due for replacement. I still have my Dell laptop, and it's still more than...
2009-10-19
2,245 reads
Vetting the PASS Board of Directors candidates
I've had a pretty heavy involvement in Brent Ozar's interview of Matt Morollo. The reason for my intense activity is he was...
2009-10-16
1,354 reads
Are you sticking to your goals? Do you know what they are?
I've engaged a little in the discussion on Matt Morollo's interview on Brent Ozar's blog. It made me go back...
2009-10-15
1,183 reads
Afraid of Presenting? Try Toastmasters
I should be writing a technical post in the next day or so. I've been focusing more on the community...
2009-10-12
1,326 reads
Carolina Code Camp - The Good and the Bad
This past Saturday I was able to participate in the Carolina Code Camp, help just outside Charlotte, NC. I was...
2009-10-12
924 reads
Weak Passwords Discovered in the 10,000 Disclosed Hotmail/Live.com/MSN leaked accounts
By now, hopefully everyone has heard of the security breach where accounts and passwords were found on a public site...
2009-10-07
2,893 reads
Rant: Cold Calls Are So Twentieth Century
I hate cold calls from vendors. Nothing gets my blood hotter than some vendor trying to call me when we...
2009-10-06
697 reads
Speaking Engagements This Week
I'll be doing three talks this week, starting tomorrow (Tuesday).
Tuesday, October 6th, Midlands PASS Chapter - Trigger Happy Database Security(PASS Summit...
2009-10-05
980 reads
Red Gate's SQL Data Generator
I'm reading SQL Server MVP John Magnabosco's new e-book, Protecting SQL Server Data, and he includes a database schema to...
2009-10-03
3,031 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers