Common Mistakes
This week Steve Jones is wondering what the common mistakes that T-SQL developers make are.
2018-06-22 (first published: 2015-03-20)
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Converting Trace to Extended Events
A walkthrough of a conversion of a SQL Trace setup to an Extended Event session.
2018-06-21
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Two Types of Performance Counters
I had an issue where an instance of SQL Server was only showing the XTP (In Memory) performance counters. None...
2018-06-21 (first published: 2018-06-11)
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Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
2018-06-20 (first published: 2015-04-08)
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Updating to SQL Change Automation
The SQL Change Automation release was early this week. This is replacing ReadyRoll and our DLM Automation products, rolling them...
2018-06-20
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2018-06-20
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2018-06-19
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State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
2018-06-18 (first published: 2015-04-09)
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More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
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Prepping for Mastering Index Tuning with Brent Ozar Unlimited
I got the chance to sign up for a few courses from the Brent Ozar Unlimited team and took it....
2018-06-15 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
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String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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