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Since we released Minion Reindex over a year and a half ago, we’ve had a ton of wonderful feedback, praise, questions, and...
2016-06-07
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Since we released Minion Reindex over a year and a half ago, we’ve had a ton of wonderful feedback, praise, questions, and...
2016-06-07
628 reads
Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is...
2016-05-18
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Here’s your friendly neighborhood reminder to get free learnin’ at SQL Saturday Houston this weekend, where we’ll have the MinionWare booth, and sessions...
2016-05-12
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Just a fun note, because it was a moment of pure puzzlement for me. I’m writing a new SP for Minion Backup...
2016-04-25 (first published: 2016-04-18)
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Bonus summary: xp_cmdshell is limited to admins, unless you specifically grant permissions to users. And if you’re an admin, you have...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-09)
1,763 reads
Let it be known that the word “backup” is a noun (it refers to a thing), and “back up” is a verb (it...
2016-04-07
512 reads
As often as I have to pull a job’s name based on its job_id in the MSDB system tables, I’m truly...
2016-04-08 (first published: 2016-03-28)
1,477 reads
Sean and I have put together our bazillion (read: like 30 combined) years of SQL Server DBA-ing into one big,...
2016-03-16
478 reads
SQL Server 2016 offers Row Level Security, which sounds awfully cool. It’s apparently been available in Azure for a while,...
2016-02-25
1,115 reads
Today let’s talk about shrinking log files, and Minion Backup – still totally & forever free – and how they go together. First...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-22)
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By Steve Jones
ecstatic shock – n. a surge of energy upon catching a glimpse from someone...
By Chris Yates
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no...
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
Just saw the "Azure Extension for SQL Server" Does anyone has experience with it?...
I've noticed several instances of what looks like a recursive insert with the format:...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Cleaning Up the Cloud
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers