SQL Server Developer Tips that Can Save Your XXX
Last week I had the honor to present a seminar at Expert Days 2014, which is an annual conference for...
2014-12-16
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Blog Posts
Create a clustered index and a primary key on existing tables
It’s the simple things in life that can trip people up. I find that creating primary keys and clustered indexes...
2014-12-15
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Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page
This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought...
2014-12-15
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #113
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-12-15
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RegEx Those Dates
Recently I was working on transforming some dates, and wanted to generate a large n number of dates for testing....
2014-12-15
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SQL Server Disk Space Emergencies
One of the things I’ll see happen often with SQL Server instances is that the system will run out of...
2014-12-15 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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The Value of Writing Good
Most of my peers, and likely yours as well, work in some sort of technical field. Odds are that they’re...
2014-12-15
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Why You Should Benchmark Your Storage
You should benchmark your storage immediately. If you are a database administrator, you should benchmark it yesterday. And today. And...
2014-12-15
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Little Java Boy
I didn’t want to repeat the Night Before Upgrade again this year, so I wrote something new. Go ahead, sing...
2014-12-14
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SSAS #39–Building Optimal and Well-Tuned Dimensions
The Analysis Services Performance Guide from bunch of Microsoft Analysis Services experts have been updated since 2005 edition for 2008 R2...
2014-12-14
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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...
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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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