Do you need to know about Microsoft Azure
The problemYou don’t know anything about Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.Do any of the following describe you
You are running your business, and you’ve heard all about “the cloud” and how it...
2019-10-28
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Blog Posts
How a new custom PowerPoint template is helping us to be more effective presenters
DCAC recently had a custom PowerPoint template built for us. We use PowerPoint for teaching technical concepts, delivering sales and marketing presentations, and more. One thing I love about...
2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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OK, Microsoft Teams is cool
I’ve had a lot of video collaboration tools come across my desk over the last decade. I’ve depended on many of these to communicate with Redgate in the UK...
2019-10-28
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Validating upstream data quality in ETL processes, SQL edition
It is a non-null constraint, not a non-ish-null constraint You are writing an ETL process, part of this process you need to import a semi-structured file (think CSV, JSON,...
2019-10-28
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Validating upstream data quality in ETL processes, SQL edition
It is a non-null constraint, not a non-ish-null constraint You are writing an ETL process, part of this process you need to import a semi-structured file (think CSV, JSON,...
2019-10-28
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Well Trained Staff
I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...
2019-10-28
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – 45 Minute Sessions
Earlier this Brent ran a poll about the preferred session length and more than 50% liked the idea of 45 minute sessions. Interesting, the idea of trying to fit...
2019-10-27
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Make the most of your PASS Summit Evenings
At this year’s PASS Summit, I’ll only be around for a short time, and really only Monday night. I have two pre-cons to do and then need to get...
2019-10-26
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Databricks Delta Lake
Introduced in April 2019, Databricks Delta Lake is, in short, a transactional storage layer that runs on top of cloud storage such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2...
2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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Read-only Replica -AG
Read only replica is a great concept where we can re-direct all the read only connections to that replica. Following are some of the great articles for it....
2019-10-25
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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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