Creating a connect entry.
I recently wrote a blog about how to tell why your SQL login isn’t working. There were a lot of...
2017-01-30 (first published: 2017-01-23)
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Blog Posts
Enabling Remote Access to the Dedicated Admin Connection
Recently I was running a health check on one of my clients SQL Servers and I noticed that access to...
2017-01-30
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Monday Coffee 2017-01-30
Wow, what a week last week was.
The biggest thing that happened was that I got a session at SQL Saturday...
2017-01-30
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Parse Dynamics AX Context Info
Dynamics AX and SQL Server
More and more I am seeing clients requiring assistance with the Microsoft Dynamics Suite. Each of...
2017-01-30
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Parse Dynamics AX Context Info
In this article I will only be discussing the AX product and an easy tweak to make troubleshooting that product much easier from the perspective of the database administrator....
2017-01-30
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Transaction log shipping in SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server on Linux has been out for a bit now and I’ve played around a little (see here) but...
2017-01-30 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Warning: Not a valid checkpoint file name
One of the other DBAs I work with noticed a warning message that was flooding the log files on one...
2017-01-30
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How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query
[2017-Jan-29] It came as a request from one of my customers where I had worked as a consultant to quickly compare...
2017-01-29
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SQL and the other technologies
Next table shows how SQL stands with the other technologies. The data is taken from StackOverflow.Data charted looks like in the...
2017-01-28
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Worth Reading – Something I learned while unemployed by Rod Falanga
SQLServerCentral recently published Something I learned while unemployed. Written by Rod Falanga, it has lessons worth learning about making time to...
2017-01-28
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Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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,...
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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