How Do We Learn?
With a huge increase in the number of online learning frameworks, Dave Convery wonders how comfortable people are with this new way of polishing their skills.
2013-06-03
212 reads
Editorials
Relying on Algorithms
Today Steve Jones looks at the way software affects the world and how we might be worried about how things might change in the future.
2013-06-03
121 reads
The Bicentennial
Tomorrow is the bicentennial SQL Saturday event. SQL Saturday #200 takes place in Philadelphia, and Steve Jones has some thoughts as he travels to the City of Brotherly Love.
2013-05-31
73 reads
The Speed of Azure
There isn't a lot of acceptance of Azure from DBAs. Steve Jones talks about some of the advantages of Azure and thinks that we should be working to ensure that our internal systems respond at the same speed as people can get from Azure.
2013-05-30
167 reads
Data Will Drive the World
Data and software will impact our lives more and more in the future. Steve Jones talks about some of the potential ways in which both of these have changed the world.
2013-05-28
157 reads
2013-05-27
45 reads
Trusting Systems
The trust we build by ensuring our computer systems work is important. If we can't maintain that trust, Steve Jones sees a problem for our careers.
2013-05-23
97 reads
Understanding HA
Dealing with disaster situations or trying to maintain an HA environment can be stressful. However knowledge about your goals and the capabilities of each technology, along with practice, can make things much easier.
2013-05-22
229 reads
How do you solve T-SQL problems?
It's good to have a methodology for solving problems, and T-SQL is no exception to this. Steve Jones notes that all too often we look at solving a problem, but only doing half the job.
2013-05-21
415 reads
Morphing Microsoft
Is Microsoft trying to move away from just being a software vendor? It seems they'd like to and that's a goal, but are they moving in the right direction? Steve Jones has a few ideas to help them.
2013-05-20
122 reads
Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
Forums
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers