A First Look at SSMS 20

Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have […]

Backing up the Resource Database

The Cloud Database Cost Analysis

Managing costs in the cloud is something many companies are concerned about. Today Steve thinks that technical people will bear more responsibility for this in the future.

What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?

At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...

Another View of DevOps

Steve does a lot of work with teams trying to adopt DevOps, and today has another description of what this can mean for your team.

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The Profiler Extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)

This article covers the basics of the Profiler extension in Azure Data Studio, a handy way to trace your application calls.

Auto Renew Subscriptions

Reserved resources in Azure can auto renew now, but Steve isn't sure if that makes our jobs easier.

A New Word: Rubatosis

rubatosis– n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, as...

An Experimental Mindset

Steve wonders how many of you have an experimental mindset. He finds those that embrace this do better in their careers.