MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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Blog Posts
Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts...
2017-01-22
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Adding Application Name to Invoke-SqlCmd2
In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...
2017-01-20
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Easy Database Space with dbatools
One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is...
2017-01-20 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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Friday Reading 2017-01-20
Been an interesting week! My site has had the most views ever (so chuffed) and during all that I’ve been...
2017-01-20
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Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 7: The Significance of Fuzzy Stats
By Steve Bolton
…………In the world of fuzzy sets and imprecision modeling, the concept of cardinality takes on new shades of...
2017-01-20
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Installing dbatools on WS2012 R2
This is actually a simple, short post, but writing helps me remember things, and since I had to learn this,...
2017-01-20
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MVPs
I was having a conversation with Oracle professionals the other day and they started to discuss the Oracle ACE program...
2017-01-20
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The most underrated show on Data Platform – SQL Unplugged
I would like to write a blog post about by far the most underrated online show about Data Platform – SQL...
2017-01-20
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The two types of IT worker
Last week I published this post about something a colleague noticed when playing around with a SQL Server instance running...
2017-01-20 (first published: 2017-01-17)
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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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