I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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I am honored to be the very first presenter of the new PASS chapter in Lafayette, Louisiana this Tuesday, presenting...
2014-02-23
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I will be speaking and whiteboarding for Data Architecture Virtual Chapter meeting on February 27, 2014 on the fitting topic...
2014-02-23
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Wrote this email exchange with some developer colleagues about to embark on performance tuning.
Subject: bag o' tricks from DMV talk
From: A. Developer
Hey...
2014-02-12 (first published: 2014-02-05)
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After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...
2014-01-30
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If you've already configured your local machine's PowerShell environment to interact with your Azure subscription (see here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/), then you can...
2014-01-30 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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I often use these scripts to check on the backups of all databases in an unfamiliar SQL Server instance, regardless...
2014-01-22
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I was recently approached by a client who was running SQL Server 2008 with some databases in SQL 2000 compatibility...
2014-01-15
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I know this might seem like an odd topic on a SQL Server blog, but it's a common and critical...
2014-01-07
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Assuming you're in a case-insensitive ("CI" in the collation name) column, this UPDATE statement:
UPDATE tablefoo
set foo = 'Z'
where foo = 'z'
will just...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
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By Brian Kelley
If you're looking for particular "Black Friday" deals, here is what I've seen advertised...
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
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For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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