24 Hours of PASS
I’m fairly certain Jack Bauer isn’t involved with this new initiative from PASS. Just as I’m also certain I won’t...
2009-08-03
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The Scary DBA
Active August #1
I like to blog about technical topics and community, not personal stuff. However, this is a community post. A number...
2009-08-01
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PASS & SQL Bloggers
PASS is trying to find better ways to reach out to SQL Bloggers. They’re going to experiment with taking advantage...
2009-07-31
1,312 reads
No really. When did this statement start?
I thought I had an interesting answer to the question. Unfortunately Adam Machanic, who has been working in this specific...
2009-07-31
1,316 reads
When did this statement start?
UPDATE: This post is incorrect. Adam nailed it in the comments. I explain my mistake here.
A question came up over...
2009-07-28
1,873 reads
Attache/Brief Case Review
Steve Jones, through a series of comments, emails, blackmail, back-alley deals & tons of whining, agreed to let me review a...
2009-07-24
567 reads
Conversations
Do you know how to start a conversation or how to join one? I usually wait for a pause and...
2009-07-21
660 reads
MS Field Engineer’s on Performance Troubleshooting
Do you want to get a glimpse into how the Microsoft Field Engineers would go about troubleshooting performance issues on...
2009-07-20
777 reads
Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
Forums
Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Is Data Modeling Common?
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers