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Author: Derik Hammer
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SQL Server SCHEMABINDING
SCHEMABINDING is an option that is available for objects in T-SQL which contain user defined code. Examples include, stored procedures, indexes, and functions. Straight…
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User Groups
Photo credit for Community Wall (above): Pat Wright (t | b) User Groups Rebooted the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group (t | w)…
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Row Level Security in SQL Server 2016 CTP2
Earlier this year Microsoft Azure implemented Row-Level Security (Brent’s announcement). In following Microsoft’s cloud-first release concept, this great feature is now part of SQL…
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Store Optional Connection Parameters in SQL Server Management Studio
About six months ago I wrote about the challenges of using the Always-On Availability Group Listeners with SSMS. At the time, I had presented…
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Choosing a Git Client
Version control (VC) is very important for any type of IT shop, big and small, as well as for application code and database code.…
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Multiple Server Management – Finding the Database Server
Often database administrators must ask themselves a simple, yet tedious question, “what server is that database on,” or maybe, “how many servers do we…
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PowerShell Start-Job
The Start-Job Cmdlet is a fast and extremely simple means of spawning asynchronous threads. Why do we care? Because performing parallel work is faster…
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The end of an era
Today is my last day working for Liberty Tax Service. Liberty took a chance on me when I was fresh out of the Navy…
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Database Deployment Work Flow with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
Happy April Fools Day everyone! I hope that you do not spend too much time reading completely false blog posts today. I, for one,…
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SQL Saturday #381 – Richmond, VA
Last Saturday I attended #SQLSATRVA, which was SQL Saturday #381. It was a blast! The day started off with the usual registration process. Thankfully,…