I am a Microsoft Data platform MVP
I am so excited and happy to be chosen to receive the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award. This is my...
2016-07-04
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SQL Server 2016 available today
In case you haven't heard, SQL server 2016 is generally available today! If you haven't try it out, you should...
2016-06-02
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StorSimple Appliance – Part 1 Overview
Last time, I talked about cloud backup and the two different ways of doing it – directly and using StorSimple appliance...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
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Cloud backup - MS StorSimple Applicance
In the previous post, I talked about how we can revamp the backup infrastructure for SQL to backup directly to Azure,...
2016-04-15 (first published: 2016-04-11)
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End of Support - SQL Server 2005
It finally comes to this date, 12th April 2016, the end of support for SQL server 2005! SQL 2005 is...
2016-04-12
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Cloud Backup - Directly to Azure
Backup is one of the major task for DBAs, it has many different options and ways for each companies to...
2016-04-07
1,635 reads
SQL server on Linux
Microsoft accounted yesterday that SQL server will plan run in Linux, with early private preview available today along with full...
2016-03-09
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Installation of SQL Server (Part 2 - Post-installation)
Previously we discussed about the pre-installation consideration, which can be found here. In the second part of this series, we...
2016-03-01
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Installation of SQL Server (Part 1 - Pre-installation)
I have been wanting to write this for a long time, and finally got time to do it. Which is...
2016-02-29 (first published: 2016-02-23)
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Parallelism setting in SQL Server – reduce CXPACKET waits?
This is one of the hot topic within the DBA community, what should be the best setting for parallelism in your environment? The answer is – it depends! J
Let’s...
2016-01-13
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON
Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...
The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?