Share custom solutions in the MinionWare Community Zone
Since we released Minion Reindex over a year and a half ago, we’ve had a ton of wonderful feedback, praise, questions, and...
2016-06-07
626 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Minion CheckDB Beta
Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is...
2016-05-18
662 reads
See you Saturday in Houston!
Here’s your friendly neighborhood reminder to get free learnin’ at SQL Saturday Houston this weekend, where we’ll have the MinionWare booth, and sessions...
2016-05-12
505 reads
Easy SQL mistakes: Accidental Correlated Subquery
Just a fun note, because it was a moment of pure puzzlement for me. I’m writing a new SP for Minion Backup...
2016-04-25 (first published: 2016-04-18)
2,955 reads
XP_CmdShell isn’t Evil
Bonus summary: xp_cmdshell is limited to admins, unless you specifically grant permissions to users. And if you’re an admin, you have...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-09)
1,762 reads
Announcement: Backup(n.) vs Back Up(v.)
Let it be known that the word “backup” is a noun (it refers to a thing), and “back up” is a verb (it...
2016-04-07
512 reads
Utility function: dbo.JobName(@job_id)
As often as I have to pull a job’s name based on its job_id in the MSDB system tables, I’m truly...
2016-04-08 (first published: 2016-03-28)
1,475 reads
Catch The Enterprise Scripting Workshop in Orange County, Baton Rouge, Albany, or Atlanta this year!
Sean and I have put together our bazillion (read: like 30 combined) years of SQL Server DBA-ing into one big,...
2016-03-16
476 reads
Well that’s just neat: Row Level Security, new in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 offers Row Level Security, which sounds awfully cool. It’s apparently been available in Azure for a while,...
2016-02-25
1,113 reads
Shrink a log file…AUTOMATICALLY?
Today let’s talk about shrinking log files, and Minion Backup – still totally & forever free – and how they go together. First...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-22)
2,614 reads
Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers