Monthly Archives: December 2023

Clearing Intellisense in SQL Prompt

Posted on December 13, 2023 by way0utwest

I got this question from an account rep: if a customer is using SQL Prompt and a snippet, for example AT, that was also used as an alias, is there a way to avoid it triggering the snippet or do … Continue reading →

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Who Still Uses SP_ for Naming?

Posted on December 13, 2023 by way0utwest

An interesting post recently from Chad Callihan on the reasons why someone shouldn’t use sp_ to prefix their stored procedures. This is advice that I’ve seen for years, but I haven’t run into this lately with many customers. It seems … Continue reading →

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Breaking Biometrics

Posted on December 11, 2023 by way0utwest

In the movies, when someone needs to bypass some sort of fingerprint biometric system, they use tape to lift a fingerprint, or in the more gory films, cut off a body part. In any case, there have been a lot … Continue reading →

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Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on December 11, 2023 by way0utwest

I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at a time. I’m sure you can Google for that, but I … Continue reading →

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