Index cleanup : Harder than it looks
I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes.
2024-08-16
Articles
Introducing PASS Summit Charitable Organization Scholarship
To help mark Redgate’s 25th Birthday, the company has launched a new initiative to foster knowledge and skills in the data industry.
2024-08-14
SSIS in One Hour: Hands-On Tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to enable ETL developers to obtain practical knowledge to exploit SSIS in transforming and combining data through hands-on exploration to be ready for real-world challenges in managing information.
2024-08-14
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
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Introducing the pre-con schedule for PASS Summit 2024
The speakers and sessions have just been announced for PASS 2024! We’re delighted to share the pre-con schedule for Monday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Check out the full pre-con line up and the incredible speakers taking part and secure your spot today.
2024-08-12
Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces
Let’s see the steps needed to move a dataflow from one workspace to another. For a matter of example, let’s consider the dataflow access a lakehouse on the Dev environment. When copied to the Test environment, the new copy needs to be linked to a new dataflow in the Test environment.
2024-08-12
Creating a Comma-Separated List (SQL Spackle)
Learn how to create a comma separated list of values in this short SQL Spackle article by Wayne Sheffield.
2024-08-09 (first published: 2011-01-12)
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Express a Number or Currency in Words with T-SQL Code
This SQL script allows you to take a number and convert the number to words, and convert a currency value into words.
2024-08-09
Simple Talks podcast episode 2: Coffee chat with Huxley Kendell
Host Louis Davidson meets with Solutions Engineer Huxley Kendell, to chat about his experience in working in the tech industry. Listen in to this episode for discussions including LLMs and AI, Coding and Career paths, all the way to Dungeons and Dragons.
2024-08-09
Choosing a File Format - Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next article, learn about the different file formats and which work well inside your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse.
2024-08-07
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Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
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Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
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Which Object Definitions Are Available?
For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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