An Introduction to Conatiners and Docker: Switch to Windows Containers
This is Chris Gibson's second post. This post follows on from his first post called: An Introduction to Containers and...
2017-03-23
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Gethyn Ellis
UK Budget 2017 – The Death Knell for Small Business?
Well I suspect not however I suspect it will likely have a major impact. What has this got to do...
2017-03-21
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An Introduction to SQL Server 2016 Query Store
By David Postlethwaite
David is delivering a talk An Introduction to SQL Server Query Store at SQL Saturday Iceland today - this...
2017-03-18
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An Introduction to Containers and Docker
By Chris Gibson
This is the debut blog post of Chris Gibson. Chris is in expert in Microsoft Windows and is...
2017-03-16
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Do you need a degree to be DBA?
This question gets asked a lot and reoccurs over the years. Do you need a degree to be DBA? I have seen...
2017-03-02
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Permanent Employment v Contracting: How the figures stack up
In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over...
2017-02-24 (first published: 2017-02-21)
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Valentine's day love from Learning Tree...
The latest course offer is in from Learning Tree!! And It's Valentine's Day!
Learning Tree are showing you the love with...
2017-02-14
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How to Count the Total Number of Rows Across Multiple Tables
I have been working on SQL Server Consulting assignment, a SQL Server 2014 migration for a new client over the...
2017-01-31 (first published: 2017-01-22)
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SQL Server 2008 RTM - Maintenance Plans need Integration Services installed
The tail end of last week was a bit of a throwback week for me. For reasons that I’ll not...
2017-01-31
899 reads
Enabling Remote Access to the Dedicated Admin Connection
Recently I was running a health check on one of my clients SQL Servers and I noticed that access to...
2017-01-30
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers