The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Blog Posts
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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Back at Small Data SF in 2025
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the conference last year and thought it was a great event. Watching people talk about data...
2025-11-05
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Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build pipelines, connect sources to sinks, and hope the pipes do not burst under pressure. That...
2025-11-05 (first published: 2025-10-17)
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Connect resiliently to SQL Server
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server
Transient failures happen — in the cloud (Azure SQL) and on-prem. A resilient connection strategy lets your app recover gracefully instead of...
2025-11-05 (first published: 2025-10-13)
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Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton of fun writing these, and I hope you’re enjoying the ride through SQL Server’s haunted...
2025-11-03 (first published: 2025-10-17)
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SQL Server Alerts
Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until they don’t. By the time someone notices an application outage or a failed backup, you’re...
2025-11-03 (first published: 2025-10-15)
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A New Word: Foilsick
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know...
2025-10-31 (first published: 2025-10-13)
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Blogs
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
By Zikato
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic,...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced!...
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Displaying Money
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers