How Long Is Your Receipt?
Part of running a businness is deciding when and where to spend your hard earned cash. It's interesting to look...
2008-08-14
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SQLAndy
Mnemonic Phone Numbers & Cell Phones
Recently I needed to make a call and the only number I had was a mnemonic one. I get why...
2008-08-13
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DBA's Need (and Deserve!) a Large Monitor, and Preferably Two of Them
With all the options we have for viewing query plans I still prefer the graphical view. Combined with tooltips and...
2008-08-12
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Argentina Code Camp
My friend Jonas Stawski just sent me a note about the upcoming Code Camp in Argentina on October 24, 2008....
2008-08-11
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Minutes of the Aug 2008 oPASS Meeting
I've just posted minutes of the August 2008 user group meeting. We had two great presentations, a short one from...
2008-08-10
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Changing Jobs - Should You?
I think most people fall into two groups, the ones that change jobs every year/every time they can make another...
2008-08-07
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Negotiating - It's Not All About Winning
More and more I see business people adopt the mindset that any negotiation is raw combat with the goal of...
2008-08-05
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Tool Review: Snarfer
I'm probably in the minority, but I use an offline reader for consuming feeds. Nothing wrong with browser based readers other than that...
2008-08-04
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Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
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oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
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5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers