4 Top Tips for starting your database DevOps journey
Want to get database DevOps implemented where you work but unsure where to start or how? We’ve written a handy blog to help you begin your database DevOps journey....
2019-04-15
Articles
In Azure SQL DB, what does “The connection is broken and recovery is not possible” mean?
All it really means is, “Click Execute again, and you will be fine.”
2019-04-15
Sorting Months By Number (SQL Spackle)
Fill in another bit of your T-SQL knowledge by learning how to sort a result set by the proper month order, but use the month name instead.
2019-04-12 (first published: 2010-11-15)
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Avoid running out of Disk Space ever again using SQL Monitor
SQL Monitor not only collects all the disk and database growth tracking data you need, automatically, but also analyses trends in this data to predict accurately when either a disk volume will run out of free space, or a database file will need to grow.
2019-04-12
Manage SQL Server Agent History More Effectively
In this tip we look at how to build a custom approach to managing SQL Server Agent history data.
2019-04-12
SQL Server System Audit Report
Ensuring that your SQL Server is secure is the job of every Database Administrator. In this article I will provide a script to help perform easier audits of your system.
2019-04-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
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Deploying and Reverting Clones for Database Development and Testing
It can be quite a shock for developers to realize they can make radical changes to the data or schema, while testing, safe in the knowledge that it will take them only a few seconds to revert the database to its original state. Phil Factor demonstrates how it's done, using SQL Clone and PowerShell.
2019-04-11
What happens when you cancel or kill a resumable index creation?
SQL Server 2019 adds resumable online index creation, and it’s pretty spiffy according to Brent.
2019-04-11
How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically, using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt
Phil Factor shows how a set of Redgate tools can be used together, via PowerShell, to build a database from object-level source, stock it with data, document it, and then provision any number of test and development servers. Before tearing down and rebuilding a database to a new version, we take care to save any DDL changes made to the existing copy.
2019-04-10
SQL and NoSQL Database Features and Differences
In this tip we will talk about the features and main differences between SQL and NoSQL databases.
2019-04-10
Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
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A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers