Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger
Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...
2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)
1,756 reads
SQLStudies
Granting or denying permissions to all of the tables within a database
When granting or denying permissions to the tables within a database you have two options. You can either add the...
2014-05-20 (first published: 2014-05-15)
4,120 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #54: Interviews!
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this month our host is Boris Hristov (b/t). He has asked us to discuss Interviewing....
2014-05-16 (first published: 2014-05-13)
1,622 reads
Does SQL Server do a CHECKDB during an instance restart?
When you start up an instance do you rely on the CHECKDB entry in the error log of SQL Server...
2014-05-13 (first published: 2014-05-07)
2,393 reads
Why is there a sysobjects when we already have sys.objects?
Once upon a time in a version of SQL far far away we had system tables that were easy to...
2014-05-05
717 reads
DBA Myths: TRUNCATE TABLE deletes all the rows of a table instantly.
Most DBAs and developers I’ve talked to over the years have felt that TRUNCATE TABLE is an instant DELETE. However...
2014-04-30
2,713 reads
The default autogrowth settings do NOT come from the Model database.
I recently saw a question about How to inherit autogrowth settings. They commented that while the new database GUI seemed...
2014-04-28
1,147 reads
Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,395 reads
Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-04-23
540 reads
Collation: Temporary objects and variables: Demonstration
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...
2014-04-30 (first published: 2014-04-21)
1,988 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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