Thomas Rushton
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Author Archives: thomasrushton
T-SQL Tuesday #170 – Abandoned Projects
New year, new blogging regime? No. I just saw Deborah Melkin’s T-SQL Tuesday post, and had to participate… T-SQL Tuesday, second Tuesday of every month, click the image above for a link to the archive. This month – Reitse Eskens is inviting … Continue reading
Why I’m Not Attending SQLBits 2024
OK, so I’m jumping on the Steve Jones / Brent Ozar bandwagon of explaining why I’m not attending SQLBits this year… Why am I not going? Covid. No, not because I’ve got Covid, or I’m going to have Covid, or am … Continue reading
Death of a Community, or RIP AskSSC
Ask SQLServerCentral is closing down on 11th December, for Reasons. When I started out as a full-time DBA back in 2010, it was the first Q&A site I found that was active, friendly, and easy to use. It differs from … Continue reading
Well This Is Different, or “You did *what*?”
Relax, nobody dropped the production database… July 2021 There I was, coming to the end of my contract with the data science team at NHS Digital, working on shutting down their mahoosive SQL Server, and beginning to think about looking … Continue reading
Capturing Extended Properties on Drop Table
TL;DR – Nope. Extended Properties Custom extended properties can be a useful tool when creating a self-documenting database. However, in an environment where tables are routinely dropped and recreated by software/systems not within your control, it may be desirable to … Continue reading
Shooting Yourself In The Foot While Testing Triggers, or The Importance of GO
No, not “Go” the game… I was working on some functionality for a create table trigger. I had the whole creation / testing thing wrapped up in a single script for easy testing and possible deployment across multiple databases: All … Continue reading
Advent of Code and BULK INSERT problems
Have I said how much I hate the new WordPress “add post” page? No? Well, I do. Particularly when editing an earlier post… Anyway. Where were we? Oh yes. Advent Of Code. For those of you who don’t know, it’s … Continue reading
CmdExec vs Powershell – error? What error?
Just a quickie Batch file scripts, called by SQL Agent, are not propagating their errors back up to the SQL Server job system because…. they’re being called from a Powershell script? To replicate the problem, create a .bat file containing … Continue reading
Testing SQL Agent Job Step Output During The Job
(This follows on from my previous script about emailing SQL Job ouput.) There are times when a SQL server scheduled task needs to look at the output from the previous step, and make decisions based on that – particularly when … Continue reading
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