SQL Server 2008 Security Best Practices
If you are working as a DBA for a financial organisation where sensitive financial data is stored in your databases...
2012-06-01
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Blog Posts
The SQL in the City US Tour
If you haven’t heard yet, Red Gate Software is sponsoring a six city tour of the United States of its...
2012-06-01 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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The Standing Desk – Week 1
I finally got my standing desk working last weekend and started on Tuesday (after Memorial Day) working at it on...
2012-06-01
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A new neat feature in SQL Server 2012 is THROW
In SQL Server 2005 we got the TRY…CATCH construct which was a big help for developers to effectively handle errors...
2012-05-31
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After August, I'm Done Traveling for the Year
I mentioned in a post over at my Goal Keeping DBA blog that I was not planning to attend the...
2012-05-31
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Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 1
Ok folks, you asked for it. Well, a few of you did, anyway. So today I’m going to share with...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 2
Last time I went through my script to gather server information for my inventory. Today I’m going to go through...
2012-05-31
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Cross Database Views and Schema Binding
One of the most interesting things I've found as a DBA is learning about features in other RDBMS platforms. Sure...
2012-05-31
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DBCC CHECKDB
Quite often when I see a new SQL Server setup, a CHECKDB has never been run on the databases. It’s...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Denali – Day 31: Discontinue and Breaking/Behavior change features
Denali – Day 31: Discontinue and Breaking/Behavior change features Discontinue Features: As discussed about Deprecated will going to discontinue with that...
2012-05-31
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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