How to Persuade Your Company to Change
Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Managing Cross-Database Dependencies in Builds (Redgate video)
Building your database code is an essential practice to ensure that it compiles from source and that dependencies are met. But things can get tricky when you have objects...
2019-06-25
13 reads
How Developers and DBAs Collaborate in a DevOps World (video)
You’re a DBA, and your development team is all-in on doing DevOps, and they want to include the database. Should your DBA team limit the permissions or options for...
2019-06-13
7 reads
A letter to my 20 year-old self
This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in. This month’s...
2019-06-11
15 reads
DBAs: Stop Denying Sysadmin to Developers
I recent chatted with some folks who have a permissions problem in SQL Server. The permissions problem isn’t technical — it’s a process problem. The issue is that these...
2019-05-30
10 reads
What’s Unique About SQL Saturdays: Nearly Everyone Interacts with Other People
Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us...
2019-05-21
9 reads
How to recognize the early stages of burnout, and my treatment plan
I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout. This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs...
2019-05-14
7 reads
Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
6 reads
What is Automation?
Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process. I’ve been turning this concept over in my head...
2019-04-29
14 reads
Should release cadence be slowed if you don’t have database load testing?
I got a question recently about a panel discussion on Database Development Disasters at SQL in the City Streamed. I had framed a question as, “how fast should development...
2019-04-23
10 reads
Blogs
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Breaking Rules in Rome
By Steve Jones
Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s...
Forums
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
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Distance Metric Algorithms
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Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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