Discover the future of DevOps! Join Microsoft MVP Kendra Little to see Redgate's recent innovations in action and give you a picture of where Database DevOps is going, and why.
2020-09-14
Robert Sheldon wraps up his series on storage by discussing the latest storage innovation and ideas.
2020-09-14
Every once in awhile a table gets created without a primary key and duplicate records get entered. The problem gets even worse when you have two identical rows in the table and there is no way to distinguish between the two rows. So how do you delete the duplicate record?
2020-09-11
When you're developing a database, the pressure is on to get something that works, using an efficient algorithm. When you are getting close to a release candidate, however, there are some programming habits that must be removed from the code, because they can cause unexpected performance problems. In this article, you'll learn how to detect and remove one such problem: reliance on implicit datatype conversions in your queries. We'll use a combination of plan cache queries, extended events, and SQL Monitor.
2020-09-11
Learn how to correct an error that is overloading SCOM by fixing an SPN.
2020-09-10
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Containers have already transformed the way application development works, but adoption has been slower for databases. Finally, the revolution is beginning. In this post, Kendra Little shares the two ways in which containers will dramatically change the way teams develop and deploy database changes.
2020-09-10
Do table variables and variables respect transactions? If we set the value of a variable during a transaction, and we roll it back, what happens?
2020-09-09
Learn how to get Windows Authentication working on an Ubuntu SQL Server on Linux instance.
2020-09-08
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Inline Table Valued Functions (iTVFs) are one type of user defined function that is available to implement in SQL Server since SQL Server 2000.
iTVFs remain a very useful tool in our SQL armoury, so let's quickly revisit them and the different ways we can use them in our code.
2020-09-08
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Join Microsoft MVP Kendra Little to discover how you can fully left-shift your deployments with version control and automatic cloning using Redgate's latest innovations.
2020-09-08
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
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Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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