Category: Beginner

Fun with PowerShell: I made a game

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 19, 2018
Categories In Beginner, Fluffy Stuff, Powershell, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning
1 Comment on Fun with PowerShell: I made a game

So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other is making a game, both with PowerShell. So I decided to get in on the fun. I wasn’t feeling particularly creative, so I stole the idea of (ahem) that game where you plug in names […]

T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 6, 2018
Categories In Beginner, Dev, Fluffy Stuff, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning
4 Comments on T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?

So today, this happened: Now I suddenly want to know how many bananas tall I am… https://t.co/7geupBzXDj — MidnightDBA (@MidnightDBA) September 6, 2018 And I realized it would be really easy to find that out, via a calculator, or – more amusingly – with SQL: DECLARE @feet FLOAT = 5.0, @inches FLOAT = 5.0, @bananaIN […]

The transaction log for database ‘MyDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date June 14, 2018
Categories In Admin, Beginner, Intermediate, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning, Tips, TSQL
1 Comment on The transaction log for database ‘MyDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’

Your transaction log is full. Both Microsoft, and about 100 articles and blogs have covered this topic, but let’s take a quick look anyway. Because, you know, it comes up all the time.