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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Blog Posts
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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A New Word: Tangency
tangency– n. a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were...
2025-02-21
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Creating a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner
I had to demo the Flyway Autopilot system recently and created a GitHub Actions runner as a part of that. This post documents how this went. First, if you...
2025-02-21 (first published: 2025-02-10)
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Free PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring with pgNow
I’ve been putting together a new PostgreSQL session called “Performance Monitoring for the Absolute Beginner.” There are several ways to get an understanding of how well your queries are...
2025-02-21 (first published: 2025-02-13)
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Join me at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with a discount code
I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-02-20
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Join me at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with a discount code
I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-02-20
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Join me at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with a discount code
I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-02-20
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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...
Forums
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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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