Another use of OpenRowSet()
From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.
Traditionally,...
2007-11-29
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Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
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Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
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Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
1,364 reads
Passed 70-431
After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...
2007-11-25
1,449 reads
Honeypots in the Database
As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...
2007-11-23
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Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases
Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...
2007-11-23
1,976 reads
Buying a New Cell Phone
For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...
2007-11-21
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Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?
Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you...
2007-11-21
1,406 reads
SQLSaturday Article Posted on SSC
I wrote up some more notes (in addition to what's available here on the blog) to try to raise the...
2007-11-21
1,374 reads
Blogs
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...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
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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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