A Security Change with SQL Compare 15
Actually, this is a change for many products and software that connects to SQL Server. Updated drivers require us to now decide to trust the server certificate. I opened...
2023-07-24
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The Voice of the DBA
Early Bird Pricing for the Data Community Summit Ends Jul 26
The early bird pricing for the PASS Data Community Summit ends this week, on Jul 26. After that, there is a bump, so let you boss know this is...
2023-07-24
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A New Word: Ozurie
Ozurie – feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have. I think many people feel ozurie often. I certainly had a lot of this in...
2023-07-21
383 reads
Altering the Default Schema for a User
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. I wrote...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-19)
257 reads
A New Word: Exulansis
exulansis – n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it – whether through envy or pity or...
2023-07-14
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Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group
Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Assigning a Default Schema to a New User–#SQLNewBlogger
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. Since this...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-12)
284 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #164: Code that makes you feel
The invitation this month is from Erik Darling, and it’s a neat one. I like this thought, asking us to find code that impressed us or made us feel...
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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Volunteering at Work: Teaching Others
I give a few talks on career topics, and one of these is Branding Yourself for a Dream Job. In the talk, I sometimes tell a story in the...
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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Talking about the New Open-Source SQLCMD on Data Exposed
I was on the Data Exposed: MVP Edition show recently, talking about SQLCMD. I’ve written a few articles on the topics as well, and a blog post about setting...
2023-07-05
37 reads
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5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
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 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