The Habits of Better Teams
Building a strong team is hard, and it takes work. A few thoughts today from Steve on how you can do this.
2020-09-23
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Adding ApplicationIntent=readonly to SQL Data Compare
Recently someone asked a good question about SQL Data Compare. How can they add applicationintent to the connection? If you are using Data Compare, and you are reading from...
2020-09-22 (first published: 2020-09-14)
213 reads
Daily Coping 22 Sep 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-09-22
8 reads
The New Normal Annoyances
Steve talks a bit about the new challenges of working in a different environment and the challenges you might face.
2020-09-22
101 reads
Better Productivity: Cycling the Windows Clipboard in Windows 10
A quick tip I learned, that has become handy for me. Tl;dr: Try Win+V Often I am moving lots of information between different applications. I might do some editing,...
2020-09-21
34 reads
Compatibility Level Confidence
The database compatibility level ought to provide some protection from database upgrade changes, but do you believe that?
2020-09-21
330 reads
Daily Coping 21 Sep 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-09-21
11 reads
2020-09-21
881 reads
Daily Coping 18 Sep 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-09-18
37 reads
2020-09-18
424 reads
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March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
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On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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