Detecting and Removing Duplicate Indexes
Indexes are the solution to many performance problems, but with too many indexes on tables can hurt the performance of...
2012-09-14
1,803 reads
Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2)
In my last article “Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 1)“, I’ve provided an overview of Microsoft Windows...
2012-09-06
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Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
Microsoft SQL Server provides a variety of different options to monitor deadlocks. This includes Trace flags 1204 and 1222, SQL...
2012-09-03
1,522 reads
SQL Server Guest User – Still a Serious Security Threat
One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable...
2012-08-31 (first published: 2012-08-28)
5,272 reads
Tips For Minimizing Deadlocks in SQL Server
Database servers are configured in such a way that they can service multiple requests from multiple users. Obviously this increases...
2012-08-23
2,473 reads
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Database Mirroring
Database security is essential for the organisations working in healthcare and financial sector because the databases in such organisations contain...
2012-08-23
1,740 reads
Different ways to audit SQL Server security
Today, my first article (ie. Different ways to audit SQL Server security) published on SearchSQLServer.com. In this article, I discussed...
2012-08-17
1,084 reads
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1)
Windows Azure SQL Database also known as SQL Server Data Services or simply SQL Azure is a Microsoft’s cloud services...
2012-08-16
1,934 reads
Find failed SQL Agent jobs using Transact-SQL script
Today, I’m sharing the following T-SQL script which you can use to find which SQL Server Agent Jobs failed yesterday....
2012-08-15
2,297 reads
How to find SQL Agent Jobs without Notification Operator Configured?
We can either use SQL Server Management Studio or use Transact-SQL query to find any SQL Agent jobs that have...
2012-08-12
2,626 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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