Managing Registered servers with SQL Powershell
Learn how to generate Registered Servers with PowerShell in this article.
2016-10-25
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Articles
Master Data Services – The Basics
Master Data Services (MDS) is Microsoft's platform for supporting Master Data Management (MDM). A system like MDS, if properly maintained, gives organisations a powerful alternative to increasingly having to centralize databases as a way of preventing data from getting out sync or become inconsistent, and a reliable way of managing the flow of data through corporate IT systems. It makes microservice architectures realistic. Hari Yadav shows you how to get up and running with MDS.
2016-10-25
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The Sort that Spills to Level 15,000
Paul White shows that SQL Server sometimes produces very misleading information about the impact of sort operations.
2016-10-24
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JSON Select - Easily query values from JSON
Introducing JSON Select - a new library that makes it easy to pull values out of JSON strings in SQL Server 2005+
2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-08-31)
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Memory/Storage Technology Hierarchy and SQL Server
Glenn Berry discusses the ever-changing landscape of memory/storage technology, and how it relates to SQL Server workloads on Windows servers.
2016-10-21
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Basic Data Manipulation for Relational Data in R
In this post I will attempt to explore simple commands to manipulate data pulled in from a SQL database into R.
2016-10-20
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Getting started with Query Store feature in SQL Server 2016 – Part 3
Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can analyze the data collected by Query Store either with T-SQL scripting or with the graphical user interface in SSMS.
2016-10-20
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PowerShell Just Enough Administration
A major difficulty for a System Administrator who wishes to provide access for auditors, Helpdesk staff, developers and other IT people is that adminstrator roles give users more access than they need. It is too easy to make mistakes, or to make more changes than those that were signed-off. With JEA, it is possible to create role-based access control (RBAC) endpoints that define precisely what actions you’ll let your users carry out without needing a elevated, privileged administrator credentials, and which log and report all operations.
2016-10-19
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Automatically upload SQL Server Database Backups to Azure with Integration Services
Daniel Calbimonte shows how the Feature pack in SQL Server Integration Services can connect to Azure to automatically copy your SQL Server database backups.
2016-10-18
4,153 reads
Developing Redgate’s SQL Toolbelt
Take a look behind the scenes to learn more about Redgate’s development challenges, what role the SQL Toolbelt plays, and which releases are coming up.
2016-10-18
2,708 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
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Encoding Strings
I have this code in SQL Server 2025. What is the result?
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(@message); SELECT @encoded AS EncodedResult;See possible answers