A New Word: Licotic
licotic – adj. anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing – a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a TV show they’re lucky enough to...
2023-06-30
30 reads
The Voice of the DBA
Typing Strange Characters–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve had to type a few non-English characters lately, and this blog talks about how to do this. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as...
2023-06-28
420 reads
The Four Different Types of Flyway Files
This is documented, somewhat, but I wanted to put this down for myself, as the I don’t love the docs and they are hard to sort through. Flyway is...
2023-07-07 (first published: 2023-06-26)
139 reads
A New Word: Volander
volander: n. the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window, able to catch a glimpse of far-flung places you’d never see in person, free...
2023-06-23
101 reads
Agile West–How Do I Get Started with Database DevOps
This week I had the chance to deliver a talk at Agile West in Las Vegas. I linked some resources on my blog, and feel free to check them...
2023-06-21
59 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #163 – The Best Career Advice
We’re a little delayed this month. Both the host and I forgot about this. So far in June, I’ve been in Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Denver, and Cambridge for...
2023-07-10 (first published: 2023-06-20)
232 reads
Heading to That Conference
I’ve been working with Ryan Booz a bit more and as we’ve talked over the last few weeks, he has asked me a few times if I’ve booked travel...
2023-06-16
26 reads
A New Word: Astrophe
astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth. Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in...
2023-06-16
48 reads
The New Redgate Office in Cambridge
I’m in Cambridge, UK this week for the internal Global Marketing Week and Level Up Conference. This is my first visit to Cambridge in 2023, and we have a...
2023-06-30 (first published: 2023-06-14)
266 reads
Across the Water Again
I’m in the UK again, for my second trip this year. This time I have no commitments for speaking or presenting anything. I’m in town for a Marketing get-together...
2023-06-12
19 reads
Blogs
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