Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers.
2024-08-26
Additional Articles
SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues
In this article, we examine the effect of local variables on T-SQL queries and how these could potentially cause performance issues.
2024-08-23
Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit
This section gets into detailed SQL Server configuration details. This is less relevant in a cloud environment, but there are still items to confirm.
2024-08-21
Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT
This article explores how enabling READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT on your SQL Server database might ease excessive blocking.
2024-08-19
10 tips for Test Data Management success
What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.
2024-08-16
Index cleanup : Harder than it looks
I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes.
2024-08-16
Introducing PASS Summit Charitable Organization Scholarship
To help mark Redgate’s 25th Birthday, the company has launched a new initiative to foster knowledge and skills in the data industry.
2024-08-14
SSIS in One Hour: Hands-On Tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to enable ETL developers to obtain practical knowledge to exploit SSIS in transforming and combining data through hands-on exploration to be ready for real-world challenges in managing information.
2024-08-14
Introducing the pre-con schedule for PASS Summit 2024
The speakers and sessions have just been announced for PASS 2024! We’re delighted to share the pre-con schedule for Monday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Check out the full pre-con line up and the incredible speakers taking part and secure your spot today.
2024-08-12
Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces
Let’s see the steps needed to move a dataflow from one workspace to another. For a matter of example, let’s consider the dataflow access a lakehouse on the Dev environment. When copied to the Test environment, the new copy needs to be linked to a new dataflow in the Test environment.
2024-08-12
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers