PowerShell and Secure Strings
Greg Moore demonstrates how to work with the Get-Credential PowerShell cmdlet and secure strings when authenticating to an SFTP server.
2019-09-23
Articles
Learn the fundamentals of Redgate Products
Redgate invite you to look around their newly refurbished University. If you are new to their tools there are simple, easy to follow courses to get you up and running, and if you are a long-time customer you can check out the recently added courses which take you through some more technical tips, tricks and troubleshooting
2019-09-20
SQL Server Permissions List for Read and Write Access for all Databases
In this tip we look a script to find SQL Server logins and database users that have read or write access to any database in the instance.
2019-09-20
How to Stop a SSIS Package Execution from Code
In this tip we look at a way to stop the execution of a SSIS data flow task that is running by executing an outside process to stop the data flow immediately.
2019-09-19
Backup Techniques Available Exclusively When Using Azure VMs
Learn backup techniques available exclusively when using Azure VMs to host SQL Server-based workloads.
2019-09-18
Partitioning Data in SQL Server without using Partitioned Tables
In this we look at how we to quickly split up data from a SQL Server table into relatively equal size buckets.
2019-09-17
SQL Server 2019 Graph Database and SHORTEST_PATH
With SQL Server 2019 on the way, it’s time to begin learning about all the new features. In this article, Dennes Torres demonstrates how to use the new SHORTEST_PATH function that is part of the Graph Database feature.
2019-09-17
Managing SQL Server containers using Docker SDK for Python - Part 2
There are multiple ways to interact with the Docker daemon, as command line client API or GUI based tools like Kitematic. Docker also provides a SDK for Go and Python, this SDK can be used to create and manage Docker containers the same way it works with the Docker engine API.
2019-09-16 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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Working with React Components
The React library allows teams to work faster and with more consistency. In this article, Camilo Reyes explains how to get started using React components in a C# application
2019-09-16
Monitoring TempDB Contention using Extended Events and SQL Monitor
Sometimes, a database will slow down exponentially when it is working hard, with many concurrent users. Well, to be more accurate, all the databases on the instance will slow down.
2019-09-13
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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