Red Gate Dependency Tracker - Making Databases Into Moving Art
data structures are art
If anyone thinks that working with complex data structures is boring... I don't know what world they...
2016-04-27
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Sheldon Hull
Automating SSMS 2016 Updates & Install
Figured I'd share a way to automate the SSMS 2016 updates until it gets it's own fancy self updater. I...
2016-04-26 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids
Disclaimer: I have been provided with a free license because I am reviewing. This doesn't impact my assessment of the...
2016-04-14
1,244 reads
Failed to Initialize SQL Agent Log... not worthy
Moving system databases in SQL Server takes a bit of practice. I got that again, along with a dose of...
2016-04-01
8,254 reads
Failover all databases to other server
Quick snippet I threw together to help with failing over synchronized databases to the other server in bulk. No way...
2016-03-18
837 reads
Previewing the new SSRS 2016 portal
Ran into an issue with the “Preview New Reporting Portal” link on a fresh install of 2016 giving me a...
2016-03-18
444 reads
Calculating Some Max Mirror Stats
This turned out to be quite a challenge. I couldn’t find anything that made this very clean and straight forward...
2016-03-18
414 reads
SQL 2012 SP3 and entity framework conflict
the problem
An issue with SQL Server 2012 SP3 was identified that impacted EF4/5 due to additional datatypes in the dll....
2016-03-18
7,487 reads
TFS Work-Item Fancy Filtering
If you want to create a TFS query that would identify work items that have changed, but were not changed...
2016-03-18
421 reads
Should I use option(recompile)?
Should I use option(recompile)?
This will probably be a multiple stage discussion. The notes I’m providing today were sparked off of...
2016-02-02
6,904 reads
Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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