Employee Agreements & Contracts: Best Practices (23 minute video)
So you’ve got an employee agreement in front of you: now what? In this episode, I talk about practical steps you should take to make sure that you understand...
2018-08-29
18 reads
How to cause a simple spill to tempdb
Sometimes it’s useful to know how to cause a problem. Maybe you’ve never encountered the problem, and want to get hands-on experience. Maybe you’re testing a monitoring tool, and...
2018-08-22
20 reads
SQL in the City, Fall 2018 – Join Us!
SQL in the City is coming up, and it's a huge opportunity to learn. Register now to attend the free online streamed event, and join the Redgate team in...
2018-08-22
10 reads
Take the SQLChallenge: Tuning a Stored Procedure
I’ve just published a new SQLChallenge course for subscribers, and I think it’s one of the best ones yet. Your mission is to: Identify which statement is slowing down...
2018-08-16
15 reads
I’m Joining Redgate Software!
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining the evangelist team at Redgate. Starting next Monday, I’ll be working with Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, and Kathi Kellenberger — plus the whole...
2018-08-15
12 reads
Employee Agreements & Contracts: Anti-Patterns (31 minute video)
When you take a new job in software engineering or in IT, within the paperwork there often lurks an employee agreement: a contract between you and your employer. In...
2018-08-13
15 reads
Table Value Constructors in TSQL
Last week’s quiz was on Table Value Constructors in TSQL. Essentially, table value constructors let you create a dataset on the fly. These can occasionally be useful in writing...
2018-08-07
34 reads
Upcoming Live Podcast Recording Sessions: Employee Agreements and Contracts for DBAs and Devs
I’ve just scheduled two new podcast recording sessions! These are live, half hour sessions – you can join in listen, or share comments. Here’s what we’ll be talking about…....
2018-08-03
11 reads
Dear SQL DBA: Remembering Robert Davis, DBA Hero
What makes a person a DBA Hero? In this episode, I talk about how Robert Davis made a huge impact on the SQL Server community, and the traits that...
2018-08-02
26 reads
SQL Operations Studio: Keyboard Shortcuts, Actual Plans, & More
Last week I posted a quiz on SQL Operations Studio, a free, multi-platform tool from Microsoft. This tool is under active development and the features are improving by the day...
2018-07-31
27 reads
Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
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A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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