What is the database property “Compatibility Level”
What is the database property Compatibility Level? I don’t get asked to write about specific subjects very often but in...
2015-07-08
668 reads
SQLStudies
Adding a new keyboard shortcut in SSMS.
I love keyboard shortcuts. I’d rather keep my hands on the keyboard than move back and forth to the mouse....
2015-07-13 (first published: 2015-07-06)
2,726 reads
Blocking and deadlocking on purpose
Blocking and deadlocking are not things you typically want to do deliberately. But sometimes you need to test error handling...
2015-07-07 (first published: 2015-07-01)
2,579 reads
Zero to Speaker pt 2
A few months ago I wrote a post about the fact that I had actually submitted a session to PASS...
2015-07-03 (first published: 2015-06-29)
1,711 reads
Which user function do I use?
Earlier this week I was scripting out a table with some legacy columns (InsertDate and InsertBy for example). If you...
2015-06-30 (first published: 2015-06-24)
2,084 reads
Copying a TDE database from one instance to another
I got my first real world experience with a TDE (transparent data encryption) database recently. For those who don’t know...
2015-06-22
918 reads
Pass TV
Recently Adam Machanic (b/t) was telling me about an interesting effect of the top operator. When I asked for an...
2015-06-17
665 reads
Rename a database
Renaming a database isn’t something you do frequently but it does have bit of a gotcha. First of all let’s...
2015-06-15
608 reads
Modifying the “New Query” template.
TLDR; Search for and modify the sqlfile.sql file.
During a recent T-SQL Tuesday Boris Hristov (b/t) taught me about SET NOEXEC...
2015-06-23 (first published: 2015-06-11)
3,111 reads
A walk-through of creating the Activity Tracking template using Extended Events.
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and that means T-SQL Tuesday time! T-SQL Tuesday is a blog party started...
2015-06-15 (first published: 2015-06-09)
2,327 reads
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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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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 a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
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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