T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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Blog Posts
A Little Brainstorming with an AI
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than send some emails or get on a call, I decided to ask my local AI...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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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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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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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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