Add color to connections (Day 17)
Have you ever wished for a visual indicator that you are connected to a production instance of SQL Server? Well,...
2018-01-17
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Add color to connections (Day 17)
Have you ever wished for a visual indicator that you are connected to a production instance of SQL Server? Well,...
2018-01-17
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SQL Server 2017 DMVs and DMFs for DBAs
Dynamic management views (DMVs) and dynamic management functions (DMFs) are system views and system functions that return metadata of the system...
2018-01-17
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Secure or fast? Secure, obviously …
By now you have probably seen the news about a major flaw in the design of CPUs from all major...
2018-01-17
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How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
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How to get started with Always Encrypted for Beginners Part 3: One Two Punch
A few weeks ago, I wrote Part 1 and 2 of this series, which was a beginner’s guide to Always...
2018-01-17
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How to Run DBCC CHECKDB to Check SQL Database Integrity
Database Console Command CHECKDB (DBCC CHECKDB)is used to check the integrity (physical & logical) of objects in a SQL Server database.The...
2018-01-17
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Using Windows stored credentials to connect to SQL in containers
I work with SQL Server in containers pretty much exclusively when testing code and one of my real bug bears...
2018-01-17
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SSMS Line Numbers
I typically don’t turn on line numbers if SSMS, but while working with someone on a bit of code, they...
2018-01-16
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Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
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Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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