Probably you had the need to script out some objects from a SQL Server instance/database and this is quite easy. You just need to right click on the object (well…not on every single one, try it with an Availability Group :-), no script option available) select “Script XXXX as” and you have it.

But have you realized that this option doesn’t bring all the stuff? Let’s say you are scripting a table and you have a Non-Clustered index or a trigger…using this option some of the objects under the table will not be scripted out. I understand this as each one of this is a different object, which means if you go to each one you can right click and script just that one.

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Few days ago a client requested the configuration of MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator).

NOTE: If you want to know more about it here is a nice FAQ from Microsoft blogs - MSDTC Recommendations on SQL Failover Cluster ?

The client has 2 machines: one an application server and one a database server.

Both run on Windows Server 2016 OS and, the database server runs SQL Server 2016 using Availability Groups feature (where their databases resides).

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One of the good things, when we have new clients, is that sometimes they have needs that you never heard before. This does not necessarily mean that they are complex. As a matter of fact, they can be really simple..now the question is..are they doable? :-)

From my experience, this can happen mainly because one of two reasons, they have some very specific need, or because the way the application is built will make you work with features that you haven’t played yet.

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This post is to answer the question: “You are used to seeing in the format of yyyy-MM-dd right?” that I have raised on my blog post Don’t cutoff yourself with dates in T-SQL – Did you know… .

As you could see from that blog post, my screen shots were from VSCode and in this case using mssql extension, but this happens also on SQL Server Operations Studio .

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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Steve Jones ( b | t ) and he wants to know if triggers causes headaches or happiness to us.

This is the 106nd edition of TSQL2sDay - an Adam Machanic ( b | t ) brainchild.

  Triggers are those kind of database objects that sometimes are the best bet but most of the times they will strike back.

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