My Weekend Just Got Busy
I’m traveling to New York City on Friday for SQL Saturday #59 and returning Sunday morning. As soon as I...
2010-11-16
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Another Plagiarizer
I received a note today about someone else that is plagiarizing content from SQLServerCentral. It’s a blog on Windows Live...
2010-11-16
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There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
2010-11-16
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There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
2010-11-16
9 reads
There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often,...
2010-11-16
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Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server
Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...
2010-11-16
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Backup log Truncate_Only in SQL Server 2008
BACKUP LOG <db_name> WITH truncate_only command, used for clearing the log file, is deprecated in SQL Server 2008. So this post will explain option...
2010-11-16
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My SQL PASS Summit Adventures part 1
I started my PASS Summit a little early this year. I arrived in Seattle on Friday night, November 5th, around...
2010-11-16
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How Often Do You Backup Your Transaction Logs?
Whenever I speak about database maintenance, I always recommend that DBAs backup up their production database transaction logs at least...
2010-11-16
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Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
Today’s post is a quick one that came out of a conversation on Twitter. To make a long story short,...
2010-11-15
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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