2015-04-06
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Steve Jones
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Large Chunks of Data
This Friday Steve Jones talks reporting. Specifically he wonders how long can a report be before it's just wasting space.
2015-04-03 (first published: 2010-09-17)
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tSQLt with TRY..CATCH
Someone asked me the question recently about how tSQLt works with TRY..CATCH blocks and the exceptions that we might test...
2015-04-03 (first published: 2015-03-25)
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New Blogger Challenge 1 – Adding a Primary Key
The April Blogger Challenge is from Ed Leighton-Dick and aimed at new bloggers, but anyone is welcome. I’m trying to...
2015-04-02
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Check if SQL Server is running
This script will check if the SQL Server you are connected to is actually running.
2015-04-01 (first published: 2015-03-27)
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Get Your Service Broker Messages in Order. Always.
Learn how you can guarantee the ordering of all messages in a Service Broker queue, regardless of conversations.
2015-04-01
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Microservices and Databases
I ran across a post on microservices recently and was intrigued. I always like the idea of loosely coupled, independent...
2015-03-31
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Source Code Security
The code you use may contain security information. Be extra careful in this case, especially when you use encryption.
2015-03-31
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Toshiba Portege Z30 Review
I saw recently that Grant Fritchey wrote a review of his laptop, the Portege Z30. I had noted Grant’s issues...
2015-03-30
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2015-03-30
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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