Adding SQL Server 2025 to my Laptop
I wanted to do some testing of SQL Server 2025 on my laptop. I have written before how I avoided installing SQL Server on the laptop and use containers...
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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Blog Posts
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of Cloud Costs (Let’s have some fun!) – Scooby Dooing Episode 1
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in consulting, it’s that SQL Server, and other database performance tuning isn’t just about faster queries—it’s directly tied to your bottom line in...
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-08-25)
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SQL Server Availability Groups
Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups (AGs), they changed the HA/DR game. Unlike Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs), which protect the whole...
2025-09-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great invitation that is near and dear to my heart: mastering a new or existing technical...
2025-09-09
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From Chaos to Clarity: How Microsoft Purview Streamlines Data Governance
In today’s digital landscape, data is both a strategic asset and a potential liability. Organizations are generating vast amounts of information across cloud platforms, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments....
2025-09-08
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Get required permissions for DMVs
Part of my job at work is to update Transact-SQL reference content. System dynamic management views (DMVs) have permissions that are managed in the SQL Server Database Engine source...
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-23)
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Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the new Copilot chat features. I decided to give those a try in trying to get...
2025-09-08
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Summer Speaking Summary 2025
In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events...
2025-09-08
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Why DBAs Still Need to Know the Foundations of SQL Server
Over the years, I’ll admit, SQL Server has come a long way in making life easier for database administrators and with each version it keeps getting better and better....
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-19)
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Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates HammerDB benchmarking for SQL Server using Docker. If you’ve ever needed to run TPC-C or...
2025-09-06
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers