Upcoming Special Events for the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Groups
I'm happy to announce a big slate of upcoming events for Baton Rouge User Groups and especially the SQL Server...
2013-12-03
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SQL Tact
Speaker Idol Competition at the Hammond .NET User Group
Here's the link to download the sample scripts and meme-tastic slidedeck from my presentation "SQL Server Indexes in Your Ill-Begotten...
2013-11-20
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Potential Backup Software Issues with Read-Only Databases in FULL Recovery
If you decide to park a database in read-only mode for a long period of time, go ahead and alter...
2013-11-13 (first published: 2013-11-05)
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SQL Saturday #255 Dallas 2013 - SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals
500+ IT pros at UT-Arlington this weekend for SQL Saturday #255 Dallas!
Notes from today:
A big shout-out to SQLSat Dallas organizer...
2013-11-03
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PowerShell: Delete Unneeded Rows/Columns In Excel
I had a project to automate the import of a large number of excel files via SSIS into SQL 2012....
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-11-01)
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SQL Server Configuration Manager (sqlserverManager11.msc) Hidden after Windows 8.1 Upgrade
You may have noticed, like I did, that after upgrading-in-place from Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1 Enterprise, my local...
2013-10-22
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"SQL Server: Bolts to Buzzwords" presentation for the Hammond .NET User Group at Southeastern Louisiana University
One of my favorite groups to speak for (aside from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group) is the Hammond...
2013-10-17
428 reads
Houston Tech Fest 2013 - SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Here is the downloadable file with all my sample scripts and slidedeck from my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation from...
2013-09-28
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Replicated Stored Procedure Execution
One feature that many of my clients are unaware of is that the batched execution of a stored procedure can be...
2013-09-04
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Actual Emails: TL;DR: Stop using varchar(max)
Wrote this email recently to a crew of developers who were shooting themselves in the foot with a database rich...
2013-09-05 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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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