Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren’t aware of how...
2019-10-01
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In this post we saw how to create some graph tables with data. In this I will explore simple queries off of this data and how they compare with...
2019-10-01 (first published: 2019-09-21)
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Data exploration is an essential piece of any new ETL (extraction-transformation-load) process. Knowing the structure, type, and even the semantics of data sources can help the ETL developer or...
2019-10-01 (first published: 2019-09-23)
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Back in February, Sean McCown joined us on the Undercover podcast and presented a brilliant tutorial on the SMO. We thought that it was so good that we’ve decided...
2019-10-01
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September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-01
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September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-01
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No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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If you look at your error log you’ll (hopefully) see entries like this shortly after the instance startup: CHECKDB for ... Continue reading
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-16)
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Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
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Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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