Data Breaches: All Your Fault
One part of my job is to understand the compliance landscape. This means that I read a lot about the GDPR and related similar laws. I also have to...
2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Blog Posts
How Much Memory Does SSIS need?
One of the most common questions I am asked about ETL configuration is how much memory SSIS requires. When configuring a new instance of SQL Server running SSIS, or...
2019-05-02
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Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO CONFIGURE A SQL SERVER 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER INSTANCE ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 IN AZURE
Intro On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Using PowerShell in Containers
The vision for PowerShell Core is to be able to run PowerShell anywhere. In this article, I’m going to discuss how you can use Docker Containers to enable just...
2019-05-02
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Using the same Azure DevOps build steps for Terraform with different Pipelines with Task Groups to build an Azure Linux SQL VM
In my last post I showed how to build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a Terraform build of an Azure SQLDB. This will take the terraform code and build...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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ASF 021 video invitation (Star Wars Theme)
Since now, we will not keep our guests in secret. We want you to be prepared and wait if you’re interested in. First time 2 vs 2 in #AskSQLFamily...
2019-05-01 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Deploy SSIS Packages with PowerShell .ISPAC Deployment, using the SSIS Provider
In today's world, people expect to be able to commit one change, then have the entire project re-deployed and automated tests run against it. Using the SSIS PowerShell...
2019-05-01
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Deploy SSIS Packages with PowerShell .ISPAC Deployment, using the SSIS Provider
In today's world, people expect to be able to commit one change, then have the entire project re-deployed and automated tests run against it. Using the SSIS PowerShell...
2019-05-01
405 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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