Views for Abstraction Posted on SSC
This went up today and there is one great comment about possibly using snapshot isolation as an alternative to the...
2007-10-25
1,363 reads
Steve Jones Finally Reads My Blog!
I've been following Steve's exploits trying to learn the podcasting business and we usually talk about it once a week...
2007-10-25
1,462 reads
SQLSaturday Finally Listed in PASS Connector
If you subscribe to the Connector (the main communication email from PASS.org) you should have gotten one yesterday that finally...
2007-10-25
1,398 reads
Alpha Version of SQLPing3 Command Line Available
Noted SQL Server security expert, Chip Andrews, has released an alpha version of a command-line version of SQLPing3. You can...
2007-10-25
2,309 reads
Untitled Pages in ASPX
If you do any coding in .Net using aspx pages you'll recognize this one. Each page has a title attribute...
2007-10-24
1,480 reads
Be Pithy
I'm tech editing a book, working late as usual, football game on and kids in bed. As I was going...
2007-10-22
1,394 reads
Requiring Columns Over 900 Bytes to Be Unique
Had a friend call me recently to ask about how to do this, had an nvarchar(2000) column that needed to...
2007-10-22
1,455 reads
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-21
1,837 reads
SQLSaturday Update - 215 Registered!
We're at 215 registered with 3 weeks to the big day! This week I'll be having the last planning meeting...
2007-10-21
1,461 reads
ZFS & Hard Drive Defects
The most recent ACM Queue Magazine (Vol 5 #6, Sep/Oct 2007) had two really interesting articles. The first was about...
2007-10-21
1,513 reads
Blogs
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...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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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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