A New Word: Merrenness
merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...
2023-09-01
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merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...
2023-09-01
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I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the...
2023-08-31
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A customer had a question about restoring with standby, so I wrote a quick post to explain how this works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully...
2023-08-30
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I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of...
2023-08-29
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One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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mahpiohanzia – n. the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your...
2023-08-25
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I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to...
2023-08-21
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I’m back from an office trip this week to Pasadena. I had the chance to go to the office, do some internal training for people, and spend time with...
2023-08-18
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By Steve Jones
I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different...
By SQLPals
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There Why sys.fn_dblog...
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers