SQL in the City Summit
This fall, in October, Redgate Software will be hosting three, live, in-person events. These events will take place in New...
2018-09-03 (first published: 2018-08-21)
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Grant Fritchey
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Measuring Query Execution Time: What Is Most Accurate
Probably the single most important factor when deciding which query to tune, or actively tuning a query, is how you...
2018-08-28 (first published: 2018-08-13)
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Why I Love Extended Events, Reason 394: Customize Live Data
There are so many reasons to love Extended Events that it can really be overwhelming, but, one more reason that...
2018-08-27
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Analyze Actual Execution Plan
One of the many new sets of functionality introduced in SQL Server Management Studio 17 is the new option “Analyze...
2018-08-22 (first published: 2018-08-06)
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Actual Execution Plan Costs
Why don’t “actual execution plans” have “actual execution plan costs”? This is a question and a myth I have to...
2018-08-20
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Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking
Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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I'm Not a Lawyer, But...
Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. If you don’t know about it, you live under a rock, are a very old school dba, here’s a reference to the law itself. If you’re working as a data professional, I’d strongly […]
2018-08-06
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Youtube Channel Update: 3 August 2018
I’ve posted a number of new videos to the Youtube channel that might be of interest if you’re a data...
2018-08-03
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Databases and DevOps, Tools are the Easy Part
Moving your database development, deployment and management into a DevOps methodology does involve choosing and implementing tools and tooling. Tools...
2018-07-25 (first published: 2018-07-16)
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Database Fundamentals #18: The SELECT Statement
In my previous Database Fundamentals post, I showed you how to use the Query Designer to build a query. That...
2018-07-23
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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