Exporting Stored Procedure Results to a Table
A quick trick from Pamela Mooney for getting results from a proc into a table.
Monitoring SQL Server Instance Version and Builds with PowerShell
In this article we continue our PowerShell monitoring series with scripts that check the current version and build for all SQL Server instances in your environment.
Win a three-month subscription to Pluralsight
Redgate is giving you the chance to win a three-month subscription to Pluralsight (the technical skills training platform) in this month’s forum competition. To enter, simply share ‘how SQL Compare has helped you’.
Getting Informative SQL Agent Notifications from Failed SSIS Packages
Getting informative error messages when something goes wrong with an SSIS package is critical, especially if you are not in front of your computer.
Exploring errors to reveal unauthorized information
Database administrators can never stop thinking about security. In this article, Fabiano Amorim shows how data can be revealed through error messages when views are used to secure rows.
Free eBook: Defensive Database Programming
Resilient T-SQL code is code that is designed to last, and to be safely reused by others. The goal of defensive database programming, the goal of this book, is to help you to produce resilient T-SQL code that robustly and gracefully handles cases of unintended use, and is resilient to common changes to the database environment.
SQL Snippets Galore, Added to SQL Prompt
Imagine having at your fingertips all the metadata queries you need to explore your SQL Server databases and then, a few clicks later, all your diagnostic queries to troubleshoot their performance. Phil Factor demonstrates how it can be done, by storing each set of snippets in a standard JSON collection and using PowerShell to convert them to SQL Prompt snippet files.
Privacy Problems in Apps
Lots of contact tracing apps are out there. Do you know which ones collect which types of data and what they do with it?
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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