dataMinds Connect 2023 – Raiders of the Lost ADX slides
You can find the slides for the session that I gave with Johan at dataMinds Connect 2023 at GitHub. As usual, the event was amazing. A lot of great...
2023-10-12
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Blog Posts
A NEW’er Solution For An Old Problem: How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA Around
How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA
When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...
2023-10-11 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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Data Platform SLAs
Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective...
2023-10-11 (first published: 2023-09-18)
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Microsoft Fabric roadmap
Microsoft Fabric is an awesome product that has now been in public preview for five months. If you are not familiar with it, check out my recent video where...
2023-10-11
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An Important Break
I left home last Tuesday for work, heading to New Jersey for work. Over the weekend, I took a side trip to see my daughter play volleyball at university,...
2023-10-09
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 4
Last week we have discussed how Null Values can cause a trouble in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3. This week I would like to draw your...
2023-10-09
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October Is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease a couple of years ago. Since then, I have 9 made it a personal mission...
2023-10-09
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Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission
Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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Quick Tip: Taking advantage of Read-Only SQL Server replicas in your C# application
If you happen to be using C# there is a very easy way to set your application up to take advantage of Read-Only replicas.
Using this connection string: (Some portions...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-18)
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A New Word: Ringlorn
ringlorn – adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as one depicted in old stories and folktales – a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths...
2023-10-06
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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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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
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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