Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
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Eric Humphrey
Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy
My favorite and most used feature of the SSMS Tools Pack is the query history. This feature has saved me a lot of time and effort. DBAs where I...
2011-10-06
11 reads
Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your...
2011-08-23
847 reads
Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your current session in a table. Useful when you forget...
2011-08-23
15 reads
Dallas Tech Fest – Demo Files for SQL Server CLR: An Introduction
Demo files from my presentation at Dallas Tech Fest 2011.
SQL Server CLR – An Introduction – Dallas Tech Fest 2011
2011-08-12
720 reads
Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app
In a continuation of my previous LOGON TRIGGER post.
A downside to SQL logins is that anyone with the username / password...
2011-06-18
2,134 reads
Locking While Dropping or Altering an Index
Yesterday I was trying to drop some hypothetical indexes in production against a fairly active table. I started causing blocking...
2011-05-12
7,500 reads
Disable SQL Agent Jobs with PowerShell
I had a need today to disable all of our admin jobs while I moved our admin database to another...
2011-04-25
2,832 reads
Get all SERVERPROPERTY values for SQL Server
A quick script to grab all the SERVERPROPERTY() values from a SQL instance in a table. Useful when you forget...
2011-04-14
13,217 reads
Notes for Moving BizTalk’s Databases
Yesterday, I was tasked with helping a team move their BizTalk databases to another server. These are my notes for...
2011-04-08
1,434 reads
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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