Surface: Standard Onscreen Keyboard
If you feel that the default on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT isn't sufficient, you can enable what I would...
2012-11-19
1,256 reads
New York City .NET
SQL in the City - New York 2012
I was able to attend the SQL in the City event in New York this past Friday. I highly recommend...
2012-10-01
704 reads
PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it
I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...
2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)
28,460 reads
Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio
I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...
2012-08-14
2,037 reads
Enabling "Open Project Folder" for project types that don't support it
One annoying thing about SSIS (2008) and some of the other project types in Visual Studio is the lack of...
2012-07-18
754 reads
A Pattern for PIVOT
Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me. It offers the promise of...
2012-07-08
2,052 reads
Excellent SSIS 2012 Upgrade Video
This presentation gives an excellent overview of the process of upgrading SQL Server 2008 SSIS packages to work with SQL...
2012-06-24
1,311 reads
Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
3,609 reads
One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time. I have...
2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)
71,109 reads
One Way to Work Around the .NET Setup Project’s Picky Version Number Behavior
If you don’t change the version number of your .NET project output every time you create a setup package, you...
2012-05-10
1,743 reads
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Checking the Error Log I
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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