Use of RPC in Cluster
Today, My one of friend come back from SQL DBA interview & share his review. One question about which he is looking for was “What is the use of...
2014-12-22
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Blog Posts
[OT] Blog is in maintenance mode
I’m spending part of this holiday break repaying some technical debt on my website. Among other things, I am importing...
2014-12-21
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Change Tracking–an easy way to track your changes TIP#78
I am pretty much sure by the title of this post you had idea of the post content. Although I...
2014-12-21
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Easy way to reseed identity column ? TIP #77
Sometimes, we may require to reseed identity column of a table due to various reason.
For example we have deleted a...
2014-12-20
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New Power BI stand-alone Designer, Dashboards, APIs & iOS App
This week Microsoft announced the availability of Power BI Dashboards and the browser-based dashboard designer. What is it and why...
2014-12-20
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Friday Followup For December 19, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-12-19
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Getting Started with the Power BI Dashboards Public Preview
If you’re currently an Office 365 customer that is using Power BI sites then you probably found an early Christmas...
2014-12-19
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Getting Your Worth the Struggles with Moving Ahead
I often get asked for advice on how to get started in a career as a DBA or in IT...
2014-12-19 (first published: 2014-12-10)
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I am joining SQLskills
I am no longer just a SQLskills Insider, I am now a SQLskills employee. I have accepted an offer to...
2014-12-19
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Offer – Any e-book for $5
Packt Publishing are having a price drop bonanza over the Christmas period. You can get any e-book for just $5...
2014-12-19
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Blogs
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...
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,...
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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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