Protesting government web surveillance: Feb 11 Blackout
We at the MidnightDBA compound* believe firmly in the right to privacy, and so have watched with dismay over the...
2014-01-13
452 reads
Jen McCown
Applied SQL: Find and replace using regular expressions in SSMS
Regular expressions are searches on steroids, the wildcats of the wildcard world*. Even if you never ever write CLR, regex...
2014-01-10
1,243 reads
Clarity in T-SQL: Adjoining Socks
One of my children is very literal, a true pedantic. “Is there any homework you need to do?” “No.” “Really?...
2014-01-04
583 reads
Parameterization – A quick note on a CSS SQL article
I just finished reading an excellent CSS article, How Simple Parameterization works, which is well written and well worth a...
2013-12-18
536 reads
Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes
John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish...
2013-12-16
940 reads
What a DBA wants for Christmas
In the first few years of ITBookworm.com, we made sure to make up holiday lists of the most awesome gadgets...
2013-12-12
666 reads
Be a Brilliant DBA
John Sanson (b|t) recently asked a bunch of us, “If you could give a DBA just one piece of advice,...
2013-12-10
518 reads
#TribalAwards with RedGate!
You know what? You’re doing a good job. You’re reading blogs, and that’s generally the sign of a person wanting...
2013-12-09
568 reads
How to Fail a Phone Screen
It’s funny to me how easy it is to fail a phone screen – both as the interviewer, and as the...
2013-11-29 (first published: 2013-11-18)
4,156 reads
What should a candidate know about your company?
I had a great comment (Ryan McCauley’s) on yesterday’s post that led to a great conversation on Twitter. The comment mentioned...
2013-11-27 (first published: 2013-11-19)
2,065 reads
Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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