Are You the Primary Replica?

UPDATED -- Jul 3, 2015 -- To verify database exists, per comments by Konstantinos Katsoridis. Thanks for finding the bug!

In my recent adventures...

Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)

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Security Questions: Granting Access with Jobs

As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #42

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The lessons covered for this review is Configure Analysis Services Configure and Deploy Reporting Services Configure and Deploy Sharepoint Integration...

Upscale Bowling

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SQL Server – Get values as DATETIME from sysjobhistory

This is a follow-up post on SQL Server – Check SQL Agent Job History using T-SQL.
SQL Server Agent stores SQL jobs...

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One Client I was working with wanted a named set that would give them the last 5 years. Of course...

Generic Dynamic SQL Stored Procedure

Recently I came across a post on http://www.StackOverflow.com that basically asked how to write a generic stored procedure to handle...

SQL Saturday Orlando – My First Presentation!!!

I’ve submitted presentations before to CodeCamp and SQL Saturdays before, but have never been selected to present due to terrible...