Data Mesh Topologies
As a follow up to my blog Common Data Mesh exceptions, I wanted to discuss various types of data mesh topologies I am seeing being built. I put them...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-01-30)
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Blog Posts
Getting Started With SQL Server Always Encrypted
Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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Delta Lake from .NET in a Spark Connect gRPC world
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What to do? At some point we will want to do something with delta lake and so I wanted to explore the options. Before we do...
2024-02-17
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A New Word:Maugry
maugry – adj. afraid that you’ve been mentally deranged all your life and everybody around you knows, but none of them mention it to you directly because they feel...
2024-02-16
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Darling Data SQL Server Stored Procs in Azure SQL Database
Erik Darling, founder of Darling Data, has created these fantastic stored procedures to query SQL Server more efficiently to get health, log, or performance information. I will go through...
2024-02-16 (first published: 2024-01-30)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Navigating in Flyway Desktop
Flyway Desktop changed the navigation and a few people were surprised. I was as well, so I decided to do a short tip on the changes. This is part...
2024-02-16 (first published: 2024-02-02)
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Query Store: How to open multiple instances of the 'Tracked Queries' dashboard
At the beginning of this week, I shared how you can Search for queries with Query Store GUI .
Today I want to share something, Query Store related, that bugged...
2024-02-16 (first published: 2024-02-01)
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DBAs, Give Git a Try – Getting Started
One of the really interesting things over the last decade is both the rise of Git as the main VCS system for most projects, and the number of people...
2024-02-14 (first published: 2024-01-31)
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Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 4: The Office365 Outlook Activity
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going...
2024-02-14 (first published: 2024-02-12)
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sp_snapshot – The easy way to take database snapshots of one of more databases – Version 2.0
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, to easily create database snapshots. This new version adds more flexibility to the procedure, allowing you to specify the...
2024-02-14 (first published: 2024-02-01)
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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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Identity Defaults
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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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