The Failed Job
I was looking into a failed job on a SQL Server 2008R2 instance. My first step was to check the...
2013-11-15 (first published: 2013-11-07)
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Wayne Sheffield
- Website: http://www.waynesheffield.com
T-SQL Tuesday #48 – My take on the cloud
So here it is, the second Tuesday of the month. This means that it is time for our favorite Tuesday...
2013-11-13
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Murder They Wrote
For those of you that know me, you know that I enjoy learning, and passing on what I have learned...
2013-11-06
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Retiring of the MCM Certifications, Part II
Image acquired from Twitter
In my recent blog post on “Retiring of the MCM Certifications”, there is a link to a...
2013-09-03
1,337 reads
Retiring of the MCM Certifications
The MCM is dead. Long live the MCM.
The small, exclusive club of SQL Server Microsoft Certified Masters is going to...
2013-08-31
4,224 reads
It’s the small things that count
Sometimes it’s the small things that count.
I just noticed two small enhancements to SQL Server 2014's BOL, and I can...
2013-08-14
1,518 reads
2013-07-22 (first published: 2009-04-30)
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T-SQL Tuesday #43 – Plan Operators
This month’s TSQL-Tuesday is hosted by Rob Farley (blog | twitter), who became a Microsoft Certified Master this past December (congrats!)....
2013-06-14 (first published: 2013-06-11)
2,157 reads
Loading XML Data into SQL Server (SQL Spackle)
Learn how to load data in an XML file into a table in SQL Server.
2013-05-31 (first published: 2011-01-03)
20,498 reads
Getting the lowdown on 18456 errors
If you can establish a connection to a SQL Server, but are having problems logging in to it, you will...
2013-04-30 (first published: 2013-04-18)
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through SQL Server Management Studio.
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Superseded Indexes
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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