Now to End of Year
My friend Steve Jones posted Shutting Down for a Week and in that he talked about doing too much, trying...
2011-12-02
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Blog Posts
Re-blog – November 25 – December 1
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2011-12-02
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Installation Step by Step Guide - Saving System Admins, DBAs, Developers and Support Technicians A Wee Bit O' Misery
I've uploaded to SkyDrive a complete step by step guide for a SQL Server 2008 R2 installation because I prefer...
2011-12-02
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”) Licensing
Microsoft has posted the licensing for SQL Server 2012. It has simplified licensing: SQL Server 2012 will offer two licensing...
2011-12-02
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System Reserved Partition and monitoring
On Windows 2008 R2 , a System Reserved Partition is created. It is 100 MB and acts as a preparatory step...
2011-12-02
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With A Little Bit of Care, You Can Use the DMVs to Auto-Create Some Missing Indexes, Here Is How (but with Caveats)
An Automagic Index Creation Script? No, but a start to deal with Missing IndexesHere's the useful join from a number...
2011-12-02
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Workarounds for SSRS 2008 Font rendering issue
Problem
A report developed using SSRS 2008 either through Visual Studio 2010 or BIDS 2008 does not renders properly when viewed...
2011-12-02
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Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup
Database Mirroring is a popular high availability solution and low-cost alternative to clustering, especially for smaller shops who can't afford...
2011-12-01
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 9
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
Episode nine was filmed in the “Mars” exhibit. In this scene,...
2011-12-01
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December Question: When reflecting on this year, what has gone well, and what would you do differently?
December is the last month of the year, and is often a good time to reflect on the past year...
2011-12-01
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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,...
Forums
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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