SQL Server Management Studio Tips & Tricks From Dr Greg Low
It’s been a bit slow in the US this week due to the American 4th of July holiday, but it’s...
2018-07-10 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #104 - Code You Would Hate To Live Without
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bert Wagner and he asks us to write about code we’ve written that we would hate to live without.
First off, “hate” is...
2018-07-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord
We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. In this article, I share with you a poor mans...
2018-07-10
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T-SQL Tuesday 104 – Capture expensive queries with query store
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Bert Wagner invites us to share SQL scripts we’ve written that we’d hate to live...
2018-07-10
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Another MVP Award and a Few Thoughts
I got the news of my MVP award last week. I’m honored that Microsoft feels I do quite a bit...
2018-07-09
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Apache Hadoop Ozone+HDDs and Kubernetes
As Hadoop is already a great on BIG Data, now as you know hadoop has addition stuff in it with...
2018-07-09
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools – Moving Databases
If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-02)
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Does a Primary Key always have stats_id 1?
Back to the SQL Server Basics with Wayne
The Myth
I recently was attending a presentation where the presenter stated that the...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-06-28)
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Finding Missing indexes
Situation SQL Server registers every missing index. Here is how you retrieve that information from the missing index DMV’s [crayon-5c335dbc1c266788449988/]...
2018-07-07
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Finding Unused Indexes
Situation Good index management is key to success. Having too many unused indexes around slows down your system. It is not...
2018-07-07
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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