Azure HDInsight – Hadoop in the Cloud
Azure HDInsight Overview
HDInsight is a cloud based implementation hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It enables you to quickly create,...
2014-07-10
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Blog Posts
db_ddladmin and the SSMS table designer
If you want to grant a user the ability to create/alter/delete any table, SP, function etc in a database you...
2014-07-10
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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A Few More Thoughts on Summit Session Selection & Growing Speakers
Last week ended up better than expected when PASS decided to release feedback to speakers (selected or not) who requested...
2014-07-09
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Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q2
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the second quarter of 2014.
Intense School
MCSE Prep: The Integration Services...
2014-07-09
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SSIS Column Export-Question of the Day
An SSIS question! How’s that for a change of pace? SSIS Column Export is, as you might well surmise, about...
2014-07-09
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Time for a change in career
A few months back I made the decision to leave the relative comfort and security of my permanent role and...
2014-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #56 – Assumptions
Question: “What time is it?”
Answer: “T-SQL Tuesday time”
Question: “What time?”
Answer: “T-SQL Tuesday time”
“I can’t hear you?!?!?!”
That’s right; it’s that time...
2014-07-09
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Will you be attending Mile High Tech Con?
Technical conferences have always been a great venue for networking and increasing my knowledge base. Mile High Tech Con will...
2014-07-09
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Columnstore Table Analyzer
As I’ve discussed in some of my previous posts, there are quite a few data types that cannot be part...
2014-07-08
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
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URL Safe or Not?
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No Defaults Passwords Ever
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Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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