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SQL Server Workarounds
Import saved connections from SSMS 21 to SSMS 22

by Vlad Drumea November 17, 2025

by Vlad Drumea November 17, 2025 25 comments 7 minutes read

I wasn’t really planning on writing a blog post today, but I got curios if there’s any way in which connections saved in SQL Server Management Studio 21 can be …

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SQL Server Workarounds
Breaking change in the sqlcmd version shipped with SQL Server 2025

by Vlad Drumea May 25, 2025

by Vlad Drumea May 25, 2025 0 comments 1 minutes read

This short blog post covers a potentially breaking change that comes with the version of sqlcmd shipped with SQL Server 2025. Issue SQL Server 2025 provides ODBC sqlcmd version 17 …

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PowerShell SQL Server Workarounds
The weird case of bcp and Unix line endings

by Vlad Drumea May 9, 2024

by Vlad Drumea May 9, 2024 0 comments 6 minutes read

In this blog post I cover the solution for a weird behavior that bcp has when trying to import files that contain Unix line endings. The weird behavior I’m referring …

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SQL Server Workarounds
Fix SSL certificate error 1416F086 in sqlcmd on Linux

by Vlad Drumea April 15, 2024

by Vlad Drumea April 15, 2024 0 comments 2 minutes read

This post covers a few ways to fix the SSL certificate error 1416F086 returned by sqlcmd on Linux when connecting to SQL Server. If you’re looking for ways to fix …

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SQL Server Workarounds
Fix “certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted” in dbatools

by Vlad Drumea July 29, 2023

by Vlad Drumea July 29, 2023 4 comments 2 minutes read

This is a brief post about fixing the “certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted” when using dbatools in PowerShell. Example of the full error message: …

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SQL Server Workarounds
Getting away with multiple NULLs in a unique constraint

by Vlad Drumea December 9, 2022

by Vlad Drumea December 9, 2022 0 comments 4 minutes read

In this post I’ll go over the relationship between unique constraints and NULLs in SQL Server, and how you can have multiple NULLs in a unique constraint. What is a …

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