A Cool Image
Maybe we can get Chris Spalton to do some of these for all our events? I really like it. Just a few days until SQL in the City Summit...
2019-04-26
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The Voice of the DBA
What’s the Mashup Engine?
I was testing something the other day and ran sp_who2 on a test instance. I saw this in the program listing: I had never seen the Mashup Engine listed...
2019-04-24
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SQLServerCentral Design–QotD
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other...
2019-04-19
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Generating an SSH key on Windows
I needed an SSH key. First I needed to the WSL subsystem, and once I had that working, I could do the work I needed to do: get an...
2019-04-15
647 reads
SQLServerCentral Design Decisions–Forum Threads
It’s been a long couple of weeks. Almost two weeks ago we cut over from our older, v2 version of the site to the new (and current) v3. Lots...
2019-04-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #113–Personal Databases
This month we have a really interesting question for the T-SQL Tuesday invitation. Todd Kleinhans is the host and asks about personal databases. Do we use them for anything?...
2019-04-09
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Adding bash to Windows 10
Awhile back I added the Windows Subsystem for Linux to my machine, rebooted, and promptly forgot about it. After all, I’m doing more PoSh these days and bash isn’t...
2019-04-05
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SQL in the City Streamed is Today
You can still register, but join me later today for SQL in the City Streamed, along with Grant, Kathi, and Kendra. We’re all in the Redgate Software office today...
2019-04-03
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Customizing Statistics Histogram in SQL Server 2019
The use of statistics in SQL Server is tightly embedded in the query optimizer and query processor. The creation and maintenance of statistics is usually handled by the SQL...
2019-04-01
201 reads
SQL in the City Summits coming this spring
The SQL in the City Summits are back for 2019, and we’ve got more scheduled than every before. You can see the complete list on our event page, and...
2019-03-27
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Blogs
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...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers