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Agent Tokens in Job Steps: Job Name, Step and Start Time

February 9, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Monitoring, SQL Server Agent, SQL String

A copied job should log its own name, not the old one. Agent tokens do that, if you escape them the right way.

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SQL Puzzle - A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator - Part 2

SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator – Part 2

February 8, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts

Part 2 of my quick fun with Bit Wise Operator puzzle uses OR. Why does SELECT 1 | 100 return 101? Leave your answer in the comments.

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SQL Puzzle - A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator

SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator

February 7, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Puzzle

A quick Friday SQL puzzle on the Bit Wise Operator: SELECT 10 & 10 returns 10, so why do 10 & 0 and 1 & 100 both return zero?

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SQL SERVER - Learning SSIS - Where Do I Start? - Notes from the Field #014

SQL SERVER – Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014

February 6, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore

Where do you start when learning SSIS? I asked SSIS expert Andy Leonard, and he shares how a novice developer can learn it from the beginning.

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SQL SERVER – Retrieve All the Data from VARCHAR(MAX) Column

February 5, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks

SSMS will not display all the text in a long VARCHAR(MAX) column. Here is how I retrieve all of it by exporting the data to a text file.

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Backing Up MySQL, Explained for SQL Server DBAs

February 4, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, MySQL, SQL Backup and Restore

Backing up MySQL means choosing logical or physical copies and retaining binary logs for point-in-time recovery, then testing restores.

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9 Things You Should be Doing with Your Backups - Backup Tips - SQL Server Backup Tips

9 Things You Should be Doing with Your Backups – Backup Tips – SQL Server Backup Tips

February 3, 2014
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Nine SQL Server Backup tips every DBA should follow, starting with the simplest one: never keep backups on the same physical drive as the database files.

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