Use T-SQL, not the GUI
There’s a very good reason to do most of your DBA work using T-SQL, and not the SSMS object explorer. Let me tell you about it...
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2019-08-23
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Blog Posts
Allow SQL Server Agent jobs management for non sysadmins
I don’t know about your experience when it comes to SQL Server Agent jobs but often I receive requests to grant permission so that clients can handle their jobs...
2019-08-22 (first published: 2019-08-13)
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Graph Databases – Introduction
I have been looking into this feature and also into understanding graph data in general. I believe introduction of graph database feature in SQL Server has many advantages –...
2019-08-22 (first published: 2019-08-09)
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Key Findings for Database Professionals from the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019
The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. This report is the latest in six years of research. With more than 31,000 survey responses, Accelerate is...
2019-08-22
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Public and Demo Data Coming Soon!
Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-08-22
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Public and Demo Data Coming Soon!
Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-08-22
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Public and Demo Data Coming Soon!
Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-08-22
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#DPS10 – preconfs
I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...
2019-08-21
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Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2019: Choose your own filegroup for the version store
An exciting new feature in SQL Server 2019 is Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR). Resulting from a combination of magic beans and smart software developers (I might be wrong about...
2019-08-21
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DevOps for the DBA, Slide Deck
I have an all day seminar I give called “DevOps for the DBA”. If you’re attending, thinking of attending, or you have attended, you might want to have the...
2019-08-21
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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 a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers