Complicated linked servers and a bunch of head-desks: T-SQL Tuesday #104
Wayne Sheffield (b/t) is our host this month for the long running blog party (104 months now and running!) started...
2018-08-14
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SQLStudies
Putting Object Explorer etc on the right side of SSMS rather than the left.
A while back I was given the advice Move your tabs (Object Explorer etc) to the right side of SSMS....
2018-08-08
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T-SQL Formatters
The other day I was given a truly horribly formatted piece of SQL. Something a bit like this only worse,...
2018-08-06
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SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail.
Why database mail?...
2018-08-01
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#SQLCareer 2/4 July 25th 2018
Earlier this month Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be helpful if those of us that work in the...
2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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#SQLCareer 1/4 July 19th 2018
Earlier this month Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be helpful if those of us that work in the...
2018-07-25
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Processes can dramatically improve your work until they don’t.
As always with something like this, I like to start with a definition so we are all starting in the...
2018-07-23
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RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
Recently someone mentioned the LOADHISTORY option of RESTORE. It’s not horribly hard to find in BOL but it wasn’t the...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Counting NULLs
Recently I was doing one of Kendra Little’s (b/t) SQL Server quizzes. Specifically the Quiz: COUNT() in SQL Server. As...
2018-07-16
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Balancing Security Concerns.
I have a presentation I do every now again on security basics that I’m actually quite proud of. One of...
2018-08-02 (first published: 2018-07-12)
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5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
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The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
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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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Question of the Day
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