How to disable current line highlight in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS)?
How to disable current line highlight in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS)?
2022-01-18
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T-SQL script to Backup database SQL Server with TimeStamp
The T-SQL script takes a full backup of all databases(System databases and user databases) in the format of DataaseName-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-...
2022-01-18
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Export Windows applications logs in CSV format using SQL Server query
The Windows application logs are used by various applications to write new events. This blog exporting these logs into CSV format
2022-01-18
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T-SQL Query to find SQL database age and number of tables in SQL Server
SQL Server - The following T-SQL statement helps find the SQL Database age based on the created date and number of tables.
2022-01-18
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Microsoft industry clouds
In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this...
2022-01-28 (first published: 2022-01-18)
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Two Clustered Indexes?
Everyone knows that you only get a single clustered index, right? Wouldn’t it be great though if you could have two clustered indexes? Well, you can. Sort of. Let’s...
2022-01-31 (first published: 2022-01-18)
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-18
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Managed Service Account Naming Convention
A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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Learn some critical SQL Security with the MidnightDBAs (Thursday, Jan 20)
Friends, the MidnightDBAs have a plan for 2022. A capital-P Plan. And it involves writing and teaching a lot. The […]
The post Learn some critical SQL Security with the...
2022-01-17
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Troubleshoot SQL Server Error for backups–: Msg 3136, Level 16
Is it possible to use COPY_ONLY backup for restoring differential backups? No, if you try to do so, SQL Server raises error Msg 3136, Level
2022-01-17
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Blogs
SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
Forums
Managed Instance vs Azure Database - is this a good option?
We're currently in Azure, however as we had a very tight migration timeline when...
MERGE in a nested TRY/CATCH won't roll back
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
Question of the Day
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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