What Counts for a DBA: Amnesia
Louis Davidson explains why DBAs often need a healthy dose of selective, enforced amnesia about the pain of previous failures.
2013-01-07
154 reads
Editorials
DR Prep
This week Steve Jones asks how you might handle DR preparation or process differently in the new year.
2013-01-04
111 reads
All Flash
Should you think about using SSD storage in your SQL Server databases? Steve Jones thinks this might be something you should consider.
2013-01-03
216 reads
2013-01-01
269 reads
2012-12-31
215 reads
'At-Rest Data-Leakage': The Euphemism
If you let working drives leave the building in a readable state, you’re unintentionally in the publishing business.
2012-12-31
90 reads
2013 Goals
For the last Friday poll of the year, Steve Jones looks ahead to 2013 and the goals you might set for your career.
2012-12-28
185 reads
The Daily Routine
Steve Jones compares his daily routine now to that of being a DBA. This editorial was originally published on Mar 10, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday.
2012-12-27 (first published: 2008-03-10)
584 reads
The Shortage of Programmers
Steve Jones thinks that programmers should be able to negotiate any deal they can and Joel Spolsky has no reason to be upset. This editorial was originally published on May 12, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation.
2012-12-26 (first published: 2008-05-05)
482 reads
2012-12-25
45 reads
Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
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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...
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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