In this episode of Dear SQL DBA, I talk about how Redgate runs "Down Tools Week," what I'm working on as part of the project, and how this has...
2020-08-21 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Many people use entrenched processes for database development that have been in place so long that it’s hard to imagine doing it any other way. In this episode, I...
2020-08-11 (first published: 2020-07-30)
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I'm not an expert on collation in SQL Server, but there are a few important facts which I've had to learn the hard way.
In this episode I share...
2020-07-27 (first published: 2020-07-16)
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No matter what I write in this post, some of y'all are going to tell me I'm wrong. That's inevitable, because I'm writing about tempdb: a database so complex...
2020-07-24 (first published: 2020-07-15)
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pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
By Kevin3NF
Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
Wondering how others keep track of the purpose for SQL Logins? I'm not talking...
Upgrading an instance of SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022 - I am...
SQL Server SSRS 2022. Running into ' SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target...
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers