Server vs Instance. A rant.
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. ... Continue reading
2021-07-29
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SQLStudies
Speaking: In person vs webinars vs recordings
I don’t speak all that often. A few times a year for the most part. Because of that I don’t ... Continue reading
2021-07-27
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How do I unlock a SQL Server Login using T-SQL (without changing the password)?
We recently had an application login (SQL Server authenticated) in one of our training environments start locking out on a ... Continue reading
2021-08-09 (first published: 2021-07-22)
808 reads
Experiment: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled will BCP pull the non masked data.
Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull ... Continue reading
2021-07-20
13 reads
Padding a string in SQL Server
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to ... Continue reading
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
407 reads
Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Thanks for agreeing to do this Kellyn. I’ve always found you to be one of the more interesting personalities in ... Continue reading
2021-07-23 (first published: 2021-07-08)
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The SQL Server community and the rising tide (and all that).
I was speaking with one of my favorite people in the SQL Server community, Grant Fritchey (blog|twitter), on twitter today. ... Continue reading
2021-07-06
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy ... Continue reading
2021-07-01
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Another reason I prefer side-by-side SQL Server instance upgrades.
This is a quick non-technical discussion (i.e. not a how to in any way) of some of the benefits of ... Continue reading
2021-07-16 (first published: 2021-06-29)
678 reads
DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in ... Continue reading
2021-07-05 (first published: 2021-06-24)
235 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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