Monday Monitor Tips: VLF Alerts
A recent change made to Redgate Monitor to add a new alert for VLF count. This post looks at the change. This is part of a series of posts...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-24)
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Blog Posts
Advice I Like: Investing and Growing Rich
Investing small amounts of money over a long time works miracles, but no one wants to get rich slow. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice,...
2025-02-28
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The London Redgate Summit
In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate...
2025-02-28
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Top 10 Careers in Data
Would you re-order these? Machine Learning Engineer $$$$$ Develop and deploy AI models Optimize machine learning algorithms for efficiency Work with big data frameworks to process large datasets Data...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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A Little Brainstorming with an AI
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than send some emails or get on a call, I decided to ask my local AI...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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The Mysterious Empty Table
It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Dealing with Changing Data Formats: Schema Drift in Azure Data Factory
(2025-Feb-12) I will jump straight to the problem statement without a "boring" introduction, which, in a sense, already feels like an opening statement.Moving data between two or more endpoints is...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Seeding Availability Groups
In this post, the fifth in our series, I want to illustrate an example of using the T-SQL Snapshot Backup feature in SQL Server 2022 to seed Availability Groups...
2025-02-24
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Blogs
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Solving SQL Server Mysteries with a Whole Gang of Sleuths -Scooby Dooing Episode 4
One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Jobs
Hello SQL Server 2022 16.0.4212.1 running on a Windows Server 2025 Std,V 24H2, SO...
how to optimise whole database full of table and sp in one go using githubcopilo
i have subscription of github copilot which i can access in vs 2022 comunity...
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Question of the Day
Using table variables in T-SQL
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers