How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA
You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...
2015-02-26
1,451 reads
Grant Fritchey
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My First Board Meeting
Parents, you know that feeling you get after you’ve brought home that brand new baby (or in my case, babies) where...
2015-01-30 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,351 reads
Oh Look, A Horseless Carriage
Never forget, we’re making buggy whips. And everybody we know drives little buggies and they need our buggy whips. We’ve...
2015-01-28
1,080 reads
Grant Fritchey Reviews Minion Reindex
Grant Fritchey reviews Midnight DBA's Minion Reindex, a highly customizable set of scripts that take on the task of rebuilding and reorganizing your indexes.
2015-01-27
2,584 reads
Common Table Expressions Are Not Tables
There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
8,478 reads
Understand the True Source of Problems
There’s an old joke that goes, “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.” While the person in question swings...
2015-01-19
764 reads
Two Weeks on the PASS Board
The one absolute promise I made about serving on the PASS Board is that I would let you know what...
2015-01-16
529 reads
I Am Grateful For
A while back I wrote about saying “Thank you” to people. Last night I was listening to NPR on my...
2015-01-09
690 reads
Execution Plans, Performance Tuning and Rum
This is me on the last cruise
In just a few more weeks I’ll be setting sail on the first of...
2015-01-06
1,081 reads
Speaker of the Month: January 2015
I love it that my first post of the new year is going to be Speaker of the Month. I’m...
2015-01-02
421 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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