The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...
2025-04-14 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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2025-04-14
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Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...
2025-04-14 (first published: 2025-04-02)
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When in doubt, overtip – from Excellent Advice for Living This is close to my heart, since I spent a lot of time in college and after working as...
2025-04-11
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A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...
2025-04-10
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Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it was a good intro, but as someone noted in the comments, how do you use...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-03-26)
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SQL Server backups are database insurance – you don’t really appreciate them until disaster strikes. But here’s the kicker: having backups doesn’t mean your data is safe. If you’re...
2025-04-09
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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers