DBAs, Organizing Your SQL Scripts in Git
I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...
2024-07-01
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Only Capture Extended Events For a Given Time
It’s a great question. Let’s say you want to capture stored procedure completions. But, you only want to capture them between 3AM and 4AM. Can you do it? Output...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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Not Selected for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024
I got this in an email about a week ago from the PASS Data Community Summit. There’s more to it, but essentially I submitted 3 talks (2 on deployments,...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-06-28)
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A New Word: Addleworth
addleworth – adj. unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for...
2024-06-28
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Data Technology Learning Resources
Hey all! Quick one here. Tracy Boggiano, awesome person that she is, has put together an interesting collection of data over on GitHub. It’s titled DBA Resources, but it...
2024-07-12 (first published: 2024-06-27)
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How to use a Script Activity in ADF as a Lookup
In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...
2024-06-27
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6 Surprising Things You Can Do on WordPress.com Without a Plugin
Newsletters? Spam protection? Image galleries? We have you covered, no plugin needed.
2024-06-26
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Create a copy of an Azure SQL DB
Where I work, we will be migrating data from one set of databases into another. I will be making a copy of the destination databases to allow us to...
2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-06-25)
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Take the SQL Saturday Topic Survey
What topics do you want to see presented at a future SQL Saturday (or other event)? Steve Rezhener has built a survey that you can take. Take the survey...
2024-07-12 (first published: 2024-06-25)
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Resetting Git and Abandoning Changes–#SQLNewBlogger
I recently had an issue in one of my Git repos, and decided to drop all my local changes and just pull down from the remote. This post looks...
2024-06-24
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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