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Small Changes, Big Results

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Last week I was able to attend THAT conference in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It was my first time in the great state of cheese, and the conference lived up to its reputation. As a developer focused conference (rather than a database conference), I didn't have much expectation that my session about automating database changes would […]

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2023-08-05

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What Counts for a DBA: Skill

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Practice makes perfect:” right? Well, not exactly. The reality of it all is that this saying is an untrustworthy aphorism. I discovered this in my “younger” days when I was a passionate tennis player, practicing and playing 20+ hours a week. No matter what my passion level was, without some serious coaching (and perhaps a […]

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2021-08-14

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Column Adds and Drops

I run this batch on SQL Server 2022. What happens?

ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 ADD AccountAccessType INT
GO
ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 DROP AccountAccessType
GO

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