SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
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SQLAndy
Tool Review: Hamachi VPN
Maybe I haven't looked at the right products, but two years ago when we needed a VPN solution there wasn't...
2008-07-31
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Operation Hands Free
Recently I was driving home and as I made that turn into the sub-division where I live, over the course...
2008-07-30
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Blogging on SQLServerCentral.com
Recently my friend Steve (managing editor of SSC) posted to his blog about The Bad Karma Project that has to...
2008-07-30
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Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
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Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
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IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
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Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
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Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
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Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
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Blogs
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