T-SQL Tuesday #108: New Horizons Beyond SQL Server
There comes a point in one’s career when a change is requisite. Big or small there always seems to be...
2018-11-21 (first published: 2018-11-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #108: New Horizons Beyond SQL Server
There comes a point in one's career when a change is requisite. Big or small there always seems to be a tipping point that mandates some sort of change....
2018-11-13
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Audit Database Offline Events
Knowing when an event occurred within the database environment is a very important thing. Being able to act quickly when...
2018-11-13
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Audit Database Offline Events
Knowing when an event occurred within the database environment is a very important thing. Being able to act quickly when certain events occur is equally as important. Sometimes, we...
2018-11-13
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Refresh SQL Modules
As is true in most facets of life, things tend to get stale and old. Sometimes this staleness can be...
2018-11-09
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Refresh SQL Modules
As is true in most facets of life, things tend to get stale and old. Sometimes this staleness can be visibly represented as the wrinkles on your face. Other...
2018-11-09
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Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
I recently had a client call me out of the blue because he happened to be getting an error while...
2018-11-21 (first published: 2018-11-07)
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Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
Cannot use the special principal 'dbo'. This error message can be misleading. This article will take you on a journey of common mis-steps along with the appropriate fix for...
2018-11-07
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Quickly Change SQL Job Owners
It is not unusual to find a server where some random user created a bunch of jobs to be run...
2018-07-26 (first published: 2018-07-16)
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Quickly Change SQL Job Owners
It is not unusual to find a server where some random user created a bunch of jobs to be run by SQL Agent. Sometimes, the user creating the job(s)...
2018-07-16
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String Similarity I
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