Speaker at Music City Tech 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the first time, I will be participating as speaker at the Music City Tech 2019 in Nashville. Here are the details of...
2019-09-03
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Blog Posts
Techorama Netherlands 2019
You only have a few more weeks to sign up for one of my favorite events, Techorama. This year is the second time the event will be held in...
2019-09-03
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The 99 Flavours of SQL Server are all Vanilla
There are so many options for running SQL Server now. It can feel a little intimidating. You’ve spent years gaining experience with SQL running on Windows Server. On bare...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Using Raw Files in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services is well designed for retrieving and processing data on the fly, directly in the data flow pipeline. However, there are circumstances that occasionally require the...
2019-09-03
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Using strace inside a SQL Server Container
So, if you’ve been following my blog you know my love for internals. Well, I needed to find out exactly how something worked at the startup of a SQL...
2019-09-03
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
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20 Years of Redgate Software
Yeah, Redgate is only one year younger than my children. What’s really frightening is that I’ve been using Redgate’s products since my kids were a year old. I was...
2019-09-02
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Protected: Vajrasara – an interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 1
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2019-09-02
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Protected: Vajrasara – An interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 2
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2019-09-02
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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