Matthew McGiffen

I started my career in IT as a developer with Visual Basic, C# and ASP working with SQL Server backends. For the last ten years though I’ve focused on the SQL Server side of things. Currently I’m working for a leading software vendor for the financial industry as a DBA, doing a mixture of development and data architecture. If I have a speciality it is in making things run faster.

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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?

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At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM),...

Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format

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(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks...

Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric

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You might know the feeling: you’re writing code in a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric...

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3rd Friday of the Month

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Hi everyone I need to find the last business of the week.  In most...

case for 'DBCC TRACEON - Trace Flags'

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Please share a situation when enabling and taking further advantage of DBCC TRACEON -...

EXEC (@SQL) AT QASERVERNAME; Fails with read-only database error.

By sgmunson

All, Need a linked server guru.   Trying the following in a stored procedure: SET...

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