T-SQL Tuesday 163: Best piece of career advice
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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Blog Posts
What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan?
Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...
2023-06-20 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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Flyway with Multiple Folders
A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-05-31)
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Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips
Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 06-12-2023 Cooking, Father's Day, & the Shrinking Household
Hello Dear Reader! This past week was a busy one. As we've started to settle into the new house we are transitioning from eating out or having meals delivered,...
2023-06-19
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Under Promise and Overdeliver
If you under promise and overdeliver then you will always have happy clients.
2023-06-19
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A New Word: Astrophe
astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth. Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in...
2023-06-16
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Heading to That Conference
I’ve been working with Ryan Booz a bit more and as we’ve talked over the last few weeks, he has asked me a few times if I’ve booked travel...
2023-06-16
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Masking Columns in Azure SQL and SQL Server: Safeguarding Sensitive Data
Information security and privacy are key in today’s data-driven world. Sensitive data needs to be protected from unauthorized access. With column masking in SQL Server and Azure SQL, you...
2023-06-16 (first published: 2023-06-01)
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Using Data Masker on Chinese Surnames
A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was interesting, so decided to test this out. This is a short post on using SQL...
2023-06-16 (first published: 2023-05-26)
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Blogs
Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...
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Removing TDE
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