Validating Replication (All or Just One Article)
You may sometimes have reports or other processes that are dependent on transactional replication being current. If that is the case, you will probably need a mechanism to check...
2019-08-09
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Pam Mooney
Automating Replication On Your Server
If you use replication, you have had the situation occur where you had to restore a replicated database. You’ve have doubtless been paged to restore a replicated database. You...
2019-07-31
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2019-07-22
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
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Why I Take Pictures at Conferences
Why do I take pictures of screens at conferences? Let me count them up for you! Read on...
2019-07-05
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Gone Fishing…
It's SQLIntersection time, and also time to meet a new member of the family. He's old enough for social media, though...
2019-06-07
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What is Service Broker, and Why Would We Use It?
I was recently asked in a Service Broker class that I was teaching why we would use it. Good question! Read on....
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-03)
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Drop It Like It’s Hot (Part 2 of the Rename/Drop Objects Process)
Dread the drop no more! Part 2 of the rename/drop process.
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Find Occurrences of a String Anywhere on an Instance
Oh, the dreaded string search (on an entire instance). What to do?
2019-04-11
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Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers