Five reasons to be a technology speaker
I don’t think everyone should be a technical speaker. But I wouldn’t object if everyone spent a season trying. Why be a...
2017-11-08
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Blog Posts
I Thought I Was An Introvert. Turns Out I Was Anxious as #@*] (Dear SQL DBA Episode 53)
In this week’s episode, I’m not answering a reader’s question. Instead, I’m talking about my personal experience with anxiety. This episode touches on on healthcare, religion, and squishy emotions...
2017-11-08
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IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???
SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...
2017-11-08
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Is Transparent Data Encryption just security theatre?
I love theatre. In six months I am putting on two one-act plays for a local festival, because I don’t...
2017-11-08
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Line-Continuation in T-SQL
Some (or maybe most?) languages and operating system command shells allow for breaking up long lines into multiple lines (i.e....
2017-11-08 (first published: 2017-10-27)
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More Collation Confusion. (tempdb)
I’ve talked about Collation Confusion before. We had the dev and test instances at one collation and the production instance...
2017-11-08
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Notes on the 2017 PASS Summit
Just a few notes:
Weather on Wed was great, ok on Thurs, cold on Fri. Have had worse years!Felt like I...
2017-11-08
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SQL Server Phantom Reads
With Halloween around the corner what better topic to discuss than phantom reads. A phantom read occurs when rows have...
2017-11-08 (first published: 2017-10-26)
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What Are These Backup Settings All About?
I ran across a client the other day that had these Backup and Recovery options set like the picture below...
2017-11-08
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Why do you want to use SQL Service Broker
Why use SQL Service Broker It enables you to execute SQL Statements faster and do the real work later. SQL Server...
2017-11-08
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Blogs
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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