Monday Coffee 2016-11-14
Communication in the workplace.
With the release of Microsoft Teams we now have a dazzlingly array of software designed to increase...
2016-11-14
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2016-11-11
It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks...
2016-11-11
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Drag & Drop Table & Column Names in SSMS
I was working with a developer the other day and he was typing out each table name and all the...
2016-11-09
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Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio
Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...
2016-09-22
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2014 SP2 an interesting new DBCC command was included, DBCC CLONEDATABASE
This command creates a “clone” of a...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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SQL Server 2016 – Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file...
2016-08-03
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Bug fixes in SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 CU1 has been released and one thing I noticed was: –
FIX: Canceling a backup task crashes SQL...
2016-07-27
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The new SQL Server Management Studio
Ok, so this is old news I know, but I’ve had a busy couple of months and am only getting...
2016-07-20
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Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can...
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers