Backup before you restore
You should always be recoverable. If you haven’t heard that before, take note of it. It’s important.
A while back...
2015-04-22
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Make Sure to Schedule Your SQL Server Replication Jobs
You setup SQL Server Replication and everything looks fine. Rows are flowing between the servers and you think you’re done.
Right? Wrong..
At...
2015-05-04 (first published: 2015-04-22)
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How Do Blind People Use SQL Server?
#SQLNewBlogger
I can just see people skimming that and doing a knee-jerk reaction, “What a cruel and mean title! You should...
2015-04-22
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Padding Fields for Fixed-Position Data Formats
Fixed-position data formats will seemingly be with us forever. Despite the relative ease of parsing CSV (or other delimited formats), or even XML, many data exchanges require a fixed-position...
2015-04-22
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.1: Visual Outlier Detection with Reporting Services
By Steve Bolton
…………Most of the previous articles in this self-tutorials on using SQL Server to find outliers required us to...
2015-04-21
1,752 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
476 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
82 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
44 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or still automatically but at a later date plus you...
2015-04-21
16 reads
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part I – Networking
For a recent presentation on using availability groups for disaster recovery, I needed a test environment that contained multiple separate...
2015-04-21
742 reads
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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