Online, Resumable, and WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY operations in SQL Server
ONLINE operations in SQL Server were simple to understand for years — we got ONLINE index rebuilds in SQL Server 2005. That was it for a while. Then, things...
2019-12-10
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What would you say you do here?
The other day, I was looking back at an excellent blog post my colleague Jamie Wallis wrote about what Product Marketing Managers do at Redgate. I really like the...
2019-12-09
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Installing Redgate SQL Toolbelt with Chocolatey (video with transcript)
Chocolatey is a package manager that helps you install, upgrade, and uninstall packages (applications) on Windows quickly and easily from the command line. Spoilers: The command I show in...
2019-12-02
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My Git CLI Cheat Sheet
I created a cheat sheet for the Git Command Line Interface to go along with my Git tutorial for SQL Change Automation video. I find the Git CLI to...
2019-11-27
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Upcoming Free Webinars on Database Development and Operations
Fall is in swing, and it’s officially webinar season! Here’s a bunch of free events I’ve got on my calendar. Weekly Database DevOps Live Chats – a new experiment...
2019-11-19
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2019-11-16
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2019-11-16
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Links and Resources from “How to Architect Successful Database Changes”
Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a great group...
2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers