BIML is better even for simple packages
BIML, you either love it or hate it - either you use it to totally generate hundreds of packages or a...
2015-05-07 (first published: 2015-04-27)
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Blog Posts
Free Your Mind. Release Your Inner Developer
I have always liked the drawings done by MC Escher. Looking at his drawings has always forced me to look...
2015-05-07
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PASS Elections and Verifying Account
It is that time of the year when PASS starts a process to help update memberships and clean up duplicate...
2015-05-07
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PSA: Update Your PASS Profile
I got my annual two emails from the PASS organization with the notification to update my profile to vote. I’m...
2015-05-07
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Putting Your Head in the Clouds 2 –Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Solutions
By David Postlethwaite
If you are thinking about using Cloud Computing then it’s worth considering the pros and cons.
Advantages of...
2015-05-07
560 reads
Using PowerShell to Export SQL Data to CSV. How well does it perform?
So here we are at week 4 of the #SQLNewBlogger challenge. Earlier in the week I responded to the following...
2015-05-07 (first published: 2015-04-28)
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Video: Bringing Together Databases, Virtualization and Storage
Bala Narasimhan, Vice President of Products from PernixData, and I recently sat down and discussed the convergence of infrastructure, SQL Server,...
2015-05-07
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Analytics Platform System (APS) is Microsoft’s massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse technology. This has only been available as an on-prem...
2015-05-06
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Backup your SQL Server jobs using PowerShell script
This post will help you create a SQL Server job to backup all the jobs in a SQL Server Agent of an instance. It’s an useful job that you...
2015-05-06
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Backup your SQL Server jobs using PowerShell script
This post will help you create a SQL Server job to backup all the jobs in a SQL Server Agent of an instance. It’s an useful job that you...
2015-05-06
7 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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...
Forums
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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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