Now Let’s Vote for 24 Hours of PASS
Yesterday, I wanted you to vote for some SQLRally sessions, mine included. Today, let’s vote for the sessions for the...
2011-01-20
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Policy for Ad-hoc Workloads
During my presentation at SQLSaturday 62 in Tampa I was asked by an attendee about having a policy to check...
2011-01-20
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Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell
A week or so ago Aaron Nelson (Blog|Twitter) put out a call for help on Twitter looking for anyone that...
2011-01-20
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Tips & Tricks for DBAs Writing Their First Article
I have been writing full or part-time for nearly 30 years, and I have written and edited hundreds of articles....
2011-01-20
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Remember OBJECTPROPERTY(..) when investigating objects.
The object property function appears to be often overlooked.
This function will tell us about any schema scoped object in the...
2011-01-20
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31 Days of SSIS – No More Procedures (20/31)
Time to shift off of configurations and environments and talk more about SSIS packages and best practices. If you haven’t...
2011-01-20
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PASS Update #49–SQLRally
I get a lot of questions about how SQLRally is going, which tells me that there is a lot of...
2011-01-20
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SSMSDeploy 1.1 Now Available
Fixed a couple of issues and made some GUI tweaks. Please see the download page for the latest version, and...
2011-01-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 5
In the previous posts we’ve just been poking around with PowerShell and trying to make the examples something that actually means something to a SQL person whenever we ca. ...
2011-01-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 5
In the previous posts we’ve just been poking around with PowerShell and trying to make the examples something that actually...
2011-01-20
1,212 reads
Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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Question of the Day
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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