SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2: HTTP endpoints
You can use an HTTP endpoint to allow access to data over HTTP and Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) without needing...
2014-05-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2014 Management tools
Management tools play a vital role in enterprise database management. This is because the well-integrated tools extend the administrator’s capabilities,...
2014-05-30
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SQL Server: Database Design Basics
In this article, you will learn about database design concepts. The database design concepts discussed in this article focus almost...
2014-05-30
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The Week in Awesome – Plugins, Cars, Food, and France
This week in awesome: Denny Cherry – our own @mrdenny – has created a Password Vault WordPress plugin. That looks seriously cool....
2014-05-30
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Types of Join in SQL Server
You use a join to combine data from different tables into a single result set. Joins most commonly use foreign...
2014-05-30
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Can you partition a temporary table?
Reading that title, you might sit and wonder why you would ever want to partition a temporary table. I too...
2014-05-29 (first published: 2014-05-23)
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Introducing What_To_Compress V2
Hello Dear Reader! I'm about 32,000 feet in the air leaving St. Louis after a great Performance Tuning Workshop for...
2014-05-29 (first published: 2014-05-22)
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Notes From The May 2014 MagicPASS Meeting
Quick notes:
About a dozen people attended, attributed to the combination of having the meeting on a different than usual night...
2014-05-29
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Quick Tips–SSMS Select a vertical block
I saw this years ago in a presentation from Aaron Bertrand. At the time I thought it was super cool...
2014-05-29
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The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped
Problem
You are trying to drop a database user, but are getting the following error message:
The database principal owns a schema...
2014-05-29
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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...
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Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON
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The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?