Honestly, sincerely, no kidding, I love Distributed Replay. Yes, I get it. Proof positive I’m an idiot. As we needed proof. To be a little fair to me, I...
2022-09-21 (first published: 2022-08-15)
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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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I was sitting here thinking about the editorial when Kathi Kellenberger came to mind. She would frequently write about her favorite show, Star Trek. I too have been a fan of Star Trek since I was very young. However, my favorite show is a little more obscure and not as many people have seen it, […]
2022-09-17
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I have several things I’d like to say in the editorial today, but I feel I have to start off with my condolences to the family of Queen Elizabeth II. For that matter, my condolences to the people of Britain. This truly is the end of an era. Things do indeed move fast sometimes. Working […]
2022-09-10
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The other types of constraints are referred to as check constraints. They limit the data by defining a logical operation that checks the state of the data prior to...
2022-09-05
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The single most important part of backups are not backups. The single most important part of backups are restores. It doesn’t matter a lick if you have 100, flawless...
2022-08-29
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One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service when it comes to data is the fact that you get RDS backups, built in. Go...
2022-08-22
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I hear this one all the time: How do I find out who implemented object changes? I also get: Can I see the query that caused object changes? Let’s...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Ah, Tim Ford. I remember the time we were sitting at Ruth Kriss Steakhouse trying to figure out which of the two of us was the dumbest person in...
2022-08-12 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.
2022-08-06
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By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
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From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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