Master the Foundational Basics
It tells us to take the time to master the foundational basics of whatever technology we're working with. If we have mastered the basics in the past, it behooves...
2024-11-13
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Blog Posts
The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan – When You’ve Managed to Confuse SQL With a Crazy IN Clause.
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an application was throwing up the following SQL error, The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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Posting to Bluesky via PowerShell on macOS
The week of PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8), Bluesky seemed to reach critical mass with the data community as well as the tech community writ large. Over...
2024-11-12
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Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here: Youtube Spotify Watch and check this out. This is especially close to my heart as...
2024-11-12
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It is Work to Live not Live to Work
In the United States, we have our Thanksgiving this month. This is a time where families come together for a huge meal. For many, it is a time to...
2024-11-11
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Mastering the ORDER BY Clause in SQL Window Functions
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the ORDER BY clause within SQL window functions. We'll explore how it interacts with PARTITION BY and the standard ORDER BY clause,...
2024-11-11 (first published: 2024-10-24)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Projecting Disk Space
One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an estate. There might be one or two servers that you watch closely, or that are...
2024-11-11 (first published: 2024-10-28)
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Social Anxiety and Events Like the PASS Summit
If you are an introvert like me, events like the PASS Summit can call forth your social anxiety. I know this past week, I definitely felt it, even though...
2024-11-11
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A New Word: Skidding
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt. I used to make lots of sarcastic comments. Some...
2024-11-08
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PASS Summit – Thursday
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support multiple data platforms is growing and becoming the norm. This has been my experience and...
2024-11-08
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Blogs
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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