How to Change SQL Server License or Product Key?
Yesterday, I was doing SQL Server Database stress and benchmarking testing on the client side. When I started ramping-up more...
2018-08-02
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Blog Posts
The Figleaf Data Masking Beta
I’ve been using the Redgate Software Data Masker for SQL Server in a number of situations to help customers. This...
2018-08-02 (first published: 2018-07-17)
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Data lakes and swamps, oh my
I was lamenting to my friend and fellow MVP Shamir Charania (blog | Twitter) that I didn’t have a topic for...
2018-08-01 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Don’t do these things in SQL Server
Recently Brent Ozar posted a link to the PostgreSQL “Don’t do this” page, which I am shamelessly reproducing below, re-tailored...
2018-08-01
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First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group
06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...
2018-08-01
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Have you ever wonder why Log Send Rate doesn’t show against Primary Replica on the AlwaysOn Dashboard?
Recently, I was working on the AlwaysOn Availability group issue where the log records were not moving from primary to...
2018-08-01
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Schedule an Extended Event to run at a Specific Time
When you are using the extended event to capture some data for troubleshooting purpose, you may want to start or...
2018-08-01 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail.
Why database mail?...
2018-08-01
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Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share...
2018-07-31
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Failed to join local availability replica to Availability Group – SQL Server error 41106 and 41158
When you configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group from management studio, it may fail with below error while joining secondary...
2018-07-31
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Blogs
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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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