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How long will this rollback take?
It’s one of those simple things that you’re sure you should know, but are pleasantly surprised when you discover it. The scenario was that a vendor-supplied batched audit history deletion job was...
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Beautify Your Management Studio (2012)
I recently posted my colour scheme for Management Studio 2005/2008, and have just completed porting it to Management Studio 2012. As before, it’s based on a combination of Solarized and Son of...
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T-SQL Tuesday #33 – Trick Shots
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s gracious host is Mike Fal (Blog | Twitter), urging us to deliver wonderful stories about SQL Server trick shots. The first thing that comes to mind is the Yo...
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Copy a directory listing to the clipboard using clip.exe
Sometimes, you just need to get a list of filenames into Management Studio. I typically need this when choosing files to restore for non-production backups, but there’s plenty of possible uses. The...
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T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
Welcome to 2013! I’m not usually one for making resolutions based on the year changing, but the topic of this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, courtesy of Jason Brimhall is on "Standing Firm", which is awfully...
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T-SQL Tuesday #39 – Powershell Sorts!
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Wayne Sheffield (blog | twitter), who asks for some awesome uses of Powershell to manage SQL Server. As with most scripts, I had a flash of inspiration...
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Will a COPY_ONLY backup initialise the log chain?
While setting up some databases into an Availability Group, a colleague asked me why, after switching to the FULL recovery model, he was getting the message “A full backup is required”, given that he...
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T-SQL Tuesday #41 – Presenting and Loving it!
It’s a Tuesday, and that means there’s a decent chance that there’s a T-SQL Tuesday event on today. This month’s event is brought to us by Bob Pusateri (blog|twitter), on the topic of presenting. Like...
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“He’s dead, Jim”
If you haven’t heard, someone important died today. Someone that changed the world. No, it wasn’t a real person. SQL Server 2000’s support lifecycle finally came to a whimpering end. Not a dignified,...
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Where’s Jim Been?
Wow, it’s been just under two years since my previous post. I’ve had a couple of people ask about my blog, and why I’ve not posted. The good news is, I’m still around, and still working hard. It’s been...
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