Foreign Keys in SQL Data Generator
A customer recently asked about using FKs in SQL Data Generator, and I decided to write a short post showing how these work. The Scenario I’ve got a copy...
2024-03-06 (first published: 2024-02-26)
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Blog Posts
How Redgate’s Test Data Manager Can Enhance Automated Testing
A brief overview of the benefits and challenges of automated testing and how Redgate’s Test Data Manager can help. Automated testing uses software tools to execute predefined tests on...
2024-03-06 (first published: 2024-02-26)
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Adding Git LFS Support – #SQLNewBlogger
I got this message recently while committing some changes: This post shows my work in adding Git LFS support to GitHub. Another post for me that is simple and...
2024-03-04 (first published: 2024-02-21)
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Know Thy Platform
IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure...
2024-03-04 (first published: 2024-02-22)
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The Redgate Summit in Atlanta
Navigating the Database Landscape is the headline of our Redgate Summit in Atlanta on Mar 13. I’m doing the Keynote with Grant Fritchey and Kathi Kellenberger with this title,...
2024-03-04
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A New Word: Aesthosis
aesthosis– n. the state of feeling trapped inside your own subjective tastes – not knowing why you find certain things beautiful or ugly, only that you do – wishing...
2024-03-01
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EightKB 2024
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2024…it’s all happening on August the 8th! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2024-03-01 (first published: 2024-02-21)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Capture the Filegroup for Tables
A customer asked recently why Flyway doesn’t detect the filegroup for some changes. I showed them it does and decided to write a post on this. I’ve been working...
2024-03-01 (first published: 2024-02-16)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Quick Command Line Access
One of the things I had to do recently in a demo was access the Git command line. The way I did it impressed a customer, so I put...
2024-03-01
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Elevate Your Data Leadership: A Unique Intensive Learning Experience
I’ve collaborated with two industry experts to design a transformative course for data leaders: “The Technical and Strategic Data Leader.” This six-week intensive learning journey is crafted to elevate...
2024-02-28 (first published: 2024-02-16)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Want to look at cloud reporting but not sure what the costs will be?
By ChrisJenkins
Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers