2019-11-23
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Grant Fritchey
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Docker, Git and DBATools
For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...
2019-11-20 (first published: 2019-11-11)
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Every Execution Plan Is An Estimated Plan
I consider myself to be the most responsible for making such a huge deal about the differences between what is labeled as an Estimated Plan and an Actual Plan....
2019-11-05 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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You Are A Coder
So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...
2019-11-04
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Talk To Me At PASS Summit 2019
I say this all the time, but shockingly few people take advantage. Say hi to me. Please. I’m going to be at PASS Summit next week. I’ll be presenting...
2019-11-01
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Well Trained Staff
I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...
2019-10-28
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Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
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Passwords = A Good Thing
Those my friends are, in my opinion, one of the single most wonderful things on earth, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Now, you may not like those. So, picture...
2019-10-23
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Database Fundamentals #24: Filtering Data
If you’ve been reading these Database Fundamentals posts, you’ve already seen the WHERE clause because of your use of it when manipulating data with DELETE and UPDATE statements. It’s...
2019-10-21 (first published: 2019-10-14)
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SQL in the City/PASS Summit
My great organization, Redgate, is doing things a little different this year at PASS Summit. Instead of hosting our own event, we’ve decided to host a pre-con at the...
2019-10-08
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Liability for AI Errors
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
Pro SQL Server Internals
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers