Centralized Management Server 101
Registered Servers
I've used Central Management Server registered servers in SSMS for primarily one purpose, saving connections. 🙂 This is definitely not...
2016-10-24 (first published: 2016-10-16)
5,114 reads
Sheldon Hull
Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
Update: 2017-07-14
Still find this incredibly awesome! Developer just updated for Visual Studio 2017 after a lot of hard work. Github...
2016-10-12
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Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly
If you need to do code comparison on a lot of files in Visual Studio, I ran across an extension...
2016-10-12
800 reads
Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way
I had some cross database comparisons that I wanted to simplify, but ensuring the collation matched. The amount of objects...
2016-10-10
110 reads
Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way
I had some cross database comparisons that I wanted to simplify, but ensuring the collation matched. The amount of objects...
2016-10-10
350 reads
Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view
I discovered a bit of info on working with float values, while creating a hash value that contained a float...
2016-10-08
143 reads
Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view
I discovered a bit of info on working with float values, while creating a hash value that contained a float...
2016-10-08
3,839 reads
SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu
Didn't see SQL 2016 Configuration manager in the start menu. Ran a quick search to see if this was a...
2016-09-21
95 reads
SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu
Didn't see SQL 2016 Configuration manager in the start menu. Ran a quick search to see if this was a...
2016-09-30 (first published: 2016-09-21)
1,933 reads
Setting DBCC 1222 on startup
The following command is run to gain details on deadlocks.
DBCC TRACEON (1222,-1)However, once the SQL instance is restarted this flag...
2016-09-19
145 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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