Introducing The Undercover Catalogue
In this video, David give a quick introduction into the Undercover Catalogue.
2020-01-20
40 reads
Blog Posts
PowerShell to Backup XE Session
Working with Extended Events will help you become a better DBA. Working with PoSh can also help you in many various tasks to become a better DBA. Combine the...
2020-01-20 (first published: 2020-01-10)
277 reads
Previous SQL Server Updates
Hello everyone, this is John your Austin SQL Server Consultant here and today I am going to answer a question that comes up often so I wanted to blog...
2020-01-20 (first published: 2020-01-09)
486 reads
Spark Delta Lake, Updates, Deletes and Time Travel
When you use delta lake there are a couple of interesting things to note based around the fact that the data is stored in parquet files which are read-only...
2020-01-20
13 reads
Spark Delta Lake, Updates, Deletes and Time Travel
When you use delta lake there are a couple of interesting things to note based around the fact that the data is stored in parquet files which are read-only...
2020-01-20
2 reads
Controlling who commits code to a given database schema in Git with Azure DevOps
One of most the fun things about working as an Advocate at Redgate is getting to help clients determine their preferred workflow for database DevOps. Teams often have unique...
2020-01-18
19 reads
How I passed the 70-761 certification exam
FUN FACT: I have been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server for over 20 years. Second FUN FACT: the last time I took a Microsoft certification exam was...
2020-01-18
7 reads
Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, ... Continue reading
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
693 reads
My Desktop Setup
Every once in awhile when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process. Well,...
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
791 reads
DevOps for databases: “DataOps”
DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), has become a very popular way to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of...
2020-01-16 (first published: 2020-01-07)
1,179 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers