As data professionals, we should understand how language and forms of address can impact our data model. In the 21st century, we should also learn how to communicate with colleagues in a respectful and professional manner.
2020-07-30
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Learn about Azure Blueprints, available in the Azure portal, which is a new method of deploying Azure Resources through ARM templates.
2020-07-30
There is no single, correct approach to developing and testing your SQL batches and routines. It depends on the requirement. For simple tasks, like modifying and testing a view or stored procedure, SQL Compare and SQL Data Generator, combined, provide a useful, lightweight development harness.
2020-07-29
You’ve heard that shrinking a database is bad because it introduces both external and internal fragmentation, it causes blocking, it causes transaction log growth while it runs, and it’s slow and single-threaded. You understand that if it’s just a matter of 10-20-30% of a database, and the database is only 100-200GB, you might as well just leave the space there, because you’re gonna end up using it anyway.
2020-07-29
Learn how you can use Polybase technology in Azure Synapse to load data into your warehouse.
2020-07-28
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Phil Factor dissects and disentangles the various SQL Compare options.
2020-07-28
In this article we look at different T-SQL code examples that can help you build a range of date rows based on a starting and ending date.
2020-07-28
A failed SQL Server Service Pack upgrade is fixed with a trace flag.
2020-07-27
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In this article we cover many different questions about the SQL Server TempDB database to give a better understanding of what is and what it is used for.
2020-07-27
2020-07-24 (first published: 2018-12-27)
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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers