I’m going to make you love backups
On April 12, I'm going to show you about two dozen ways to make your backups better, easier, faster, and...
2017-04-04
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Blog Posts
IT Security Audit & Compliance Webinar Today (April 4) at 1 PM EDT
I’m speaking as part of a small panel for IT GRC Forum on keeping up your data security program in the...
2017-04-04
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Only as Good as Your Auditor
I wrote Only as Good as Your Auditor for SQLServerCentral because its something I’ve explained to people over and over...
2017-04-04
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 43 – Gantt)
In this module you will learn how to use the Gantt Power BI Custom Visual. Using the Gantt chart you...
2017-04-04 (first published: 2017-03-21)
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Step by Step Configuring AlwaysOn with Log Shipping
One of my clients came up with a requirement to use log shipping along with an AlwaysOn Availability Group. They cannot extend an AlwaysOn replica to the disaster recovery...
2017-04-04
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Step by Step Configuring AlwaysOn with Log Shipping
One of my clients came up with a requirement to use log shipping along with an AlwaysOn Availability Group. They...
2017-04-04
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The Foundry–Data Masking Research
For most of the time I’ve been working for Redgate, we’ve had some sort of R&D group that tries out...
2017-04-04
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T-SQL Tuesday #89 Invitation – The times they are a-changing
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community (or Microsoft Data Platform community. Although it’s called...
2017-04-04
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Columnstore Indexes – part 102 (“CCI with Secondary Rowstore Indexes on SQL 2014”)
Continuation from the previous 101 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In SQL Server 2014 we have received...
2017-04-03
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Compressed backup errors and TF 3042
Compressing your backups has very few downsides. It’s usually faster (the additional time for compression is less than the time...
2017-04-03 (first published: 2017-03-16)
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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