The Red Gate SSMS Ecosystem is a framework that makes it easy to develop, share and manage SSMS add-ins. We aim to help add-in developers build everything from homegrown solutions and community-driven projects to commercial solutions provided by partner companies. We hope that DBAs and database developers will benefit from better integrated tools.
2013-11-26
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This article discusses Microsoft Power BI, different tools under the Microsoft Power BI umbrella and when each of them can be used.
2013-11-26
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SQL Server provides the UNION, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT set operations. How do they work and how can they be used in SQL Server? Can you provide any examples? Check out this tip to learn more.
2013-11-25
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Learn how to use SQLCLR to get file system information instead of using xp_cmdshell on your SQL Servers.
2013-11-22 (first published: 2009-02-05)
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You may come across or even inherit a system where many of the users have different default schemas. Usually, this is easy to remedy - you go into Management Studio, right-click the user, and change the default schema through the UI. Or you write an ALTER USER command manually. But what if you have hundreds of users, across all of your user databases, that should all have the same default schema?
2013-11-22
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SQL Saturday is a free day of SQL Server training and networking coming to Washington DC on December 7. Paid pre-con sessions for this SQL Saturday are available.
2013-11-21
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In this series on implementing data services in Azure, Marcin Policht turns his attention to the remediation of incompatibilities resulting from of limitations inherent to Platform as a Service (PaaS) based deployments, which will need to be addressed as part of the migration process.
2013-11-21
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For loading text, CSV or XML files into SQL Server, the Log Parser utility, with its amazing SQL engine, is likely to be the obvious choice. Although initially developed purely for converting IIS logs, the Log Parser can turn its hand to a range of formats including even event logs or the Windows registry.
2013-11-20
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A CLR Procedure that performs multi-threaded fie copies without external command line tools.
2013-11-19
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Understanding indexes and how they work can be complicated enough for a Jr. DBA, but throw in all the different options and properties and an index can soon be overwhelming. Brady Upton takes an introductory look at creating an index in SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio. He explains what each index property is meant for and the various options presented.
2013-11-19
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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