Be in the SQL Yearbook
I’ve been thinking about this for years, and I’m finally doing it. I’m making a SQL Yearbook, and I want you to be...
2018-09-06
261 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?
So today, this happened: Now I suddenly want to know how many bananas tall I am… https://t.co/7geupBzXDj — MidnightDBA (@MidnightDBA) September...
2018-09-06
307 reads
Fix: When an Availability Group listener’s IP is stolen
When you can connect to the individual nodes of a SQL Server Availability Group (AG), but not the AG listener,...
2018-09-05
878 reads
Learn PowerShell in Oklahoma, August 24!
SQL Saturday Oklahoma City is coming up RIGHT SOON, on August 25. The day before SQL Saturday OKC - August 24...
2018-08-14
697 reads
Vote for a new SSMS feature: Pin files in SQL Server Management Studio
So, this just happened: That's a p good idea. I'll upvote it if you put it in User Voice. Or...
2018-08-03
408 reads
Minion Backup: Restore to another server
Minion Backup makes your SQL Server backups effortless, of course. And even better, it makes your restores effortless! Oh, yes….yes indeed. Today we’ll look...
2018-06-28
447 reads
The transaction log for database ‘MyDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’
Your transaction log is full. Both Microsoft, and about 100 articles and blogs have covered this topic, but let's take...
2018-06-14
353 reads
Generate RESTORE LOG statements
Today, we're going to take a specific, simple example of generating RESTORE LOG statements from a directory list of files,...
2018-06-06
805 reads
Tea with Kalen! An interview with Kalen Delaney (#DBAsAtMidnight)
We had an AMAZING talk with Kalen Delaney – wait, you do know who Kalen is, don’t you? Rightfully, @SQLQueen on Twitter. Over 30 years...
2018-05-16
346 reads
SQL Saturday Dallas half-day precon: “Beginning Programming with Powershell”
On May 18 we will be presenting a half-day of PowerShell learnin', right before SQL Saturday Dallas! Read up and...
2018-04-24
348 reads
Blogs
Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition
In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Why Data Modelling Still Matters - More Than Ever
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Data Modelling Still Matters...
hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers