And that's why there are central management servers and Powershell...

The worst schema I had to implement:

A customer wanted us to reboot the server for patches on the first friday of the month around 1am.

How do you schedule updates for...

A table is not an object, it's a set. A set contains zero or more elements.

Set = plural

Element = singular

Once you start thinking of a table as singular, your mind...

That doesn't shrink the file.

And the logfile of a simple database can also grow large if you try to do everything in one transaction.

That's what Powershell is for.

Invoke-DBAShrink -SQLInstance Instance -AllUserDatabases -FileType Log

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

ildjarn.is.dead wrote:

Do they require a reboot or a restart of SQL server service?

Not sure what you mean? Nothign I've shown requires a reboot

Exactly. So why add 'I am not...

Do they require a reboot or a restart of SQL server service?

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In the end this was resolved by installing the latest CU, after which the WMI classes mysteriously appeared.

You've determined the best Batman movie, not the best Batman. A Batman can be awesome in an otherwise crap movie, or crap in an otherwise awesome movie.

I prefer to use Powershell, and Invoke-DbaQuery from within my Powershell scripts for things that require T-SQL. The source of all scripts is then in my Powershell library, instead of...

How thread-safe is this? I.e. will other sessions with updates also not fire the trigger?

I have. But see also the second line...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/language-extensions/language-extensions-overview?view=sql-server-ver15

So not every language can be added with a language extension, or am I misreading this?

I would've expected DROP TABLE to set @@ROWCOUNT to the number of dropped rows.

'Colts' is in the middle of the string, and TRIM() only removes characters from the beginning and the end.