One of the key tenets in DevOps is to involve the Operations team in the full software development lifecycle and, in particular, to ensure that operational requirements are incorporated...
2017-07-11
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The majority of Azure SQL Database related features reach their General Availability (GA) stage relatively quickly. There are however, some exceptions. The most prominent example in this category is likely Azure SQL Data Sync, which has remained in Preview since its introduction 7 years ago. Fortunately, there are signs that this service might be finally reaching production-ready state. In this article, Martin Pollicht introduces its main characteristics.
2017-07-10
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Jonathan Kehayias discusses SQL Server on VMware, and how to monitor CPU performance – with or without access to vCenter.
2017-07-07
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There are multiple ways to accomplish a database restore. But if you wanted to restore a database from a script how might you accomplish that task quickly and accurately?
2017-07-06
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TSQL Code must work properly and efficiently. That's not enough though. Unless you are working alone, have perfect memory and plan to never change job, then you need to comment and document your code, it must be inherently readable, well laid out, use informative and obvious names, and it must be robust and resilient; written defensively. It must not rely on deprecated features of SQL Server, or assume particular database settings. Robert Sheldon starts a series of articles that explains the basics.
2017-07-05
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In this post, Tim Smith looks at the different options you can use to audit your SQL Server extracts and loads during the ETL process.
2017-07-04
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What native SQL Server options are available to export to Excel? Jeremy Kadlec explains.
2017-06-30
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Tim Radney of SQLskills walks through multiple automation methods you can use to manage and maintain your Azure SQL Databases.
2017-06-29
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You can produce HTML from SQL because SQL Server has built-in support for outputting XML, and HTML is best understood as a slightly odd dialect of XML that imparts meaning to predefined tags. There are plenty of edge cases where an HTML structure is the most obvious way of communicating tables, lists and directories. Where data is hierarchical, it can make even more sense. William Brewer gives a simple introduction to a few HTML-output techniques.
2017-06-28
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Have you ever wanted to be able to see the actual transactions that are contained in the transaction log file? Greg Larsen shows you how to browse the transaction log using an undocumented function.
2017-06-27
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By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?