SQL Server Audit is an efficient way to track and log events that occur within the database engine. For on-premises or IaaS environments, those audits can only be stored...
2024-10-30 (first published: 2024-10-15)
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Earlier this month, I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked, “What’s in your data detective toolkit?” We got some great responses which I’ll recap here,...
2024-10-30 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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I am able to head back to Seattle for the PASS Summit this year. I would love to meet up with friends and colleagues. I shouldn’t be too hard...
2024-10-29
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I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse with a metadata-driven, pattern-based approach. One of the benefits I mentioned is that it’s easy...
2024-10-28 (first published: 2024-10-14)
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A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed them a few things from the Estate tab in Redgate Monitor. This post covers a...
2024-10-28 (first published: 2024-10-14)
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I'm excited to tell you about the "SQL from A to Z" learning track. This comprehensive program will take you from SQL newbie to pro in no time. It's...
2024-10-28
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feresy – n. the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t understand, even though they might be changes for the better, because it forces you to...
2024-10-25
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I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL server version that I was using in Azure. The cost was going up, and while...
2024-10-25 (first published: 2024-10-07)
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It's like disaster recovery (and business continuity) planning is the end-of-term research paper that the professor mentioned on the first day of class, but which most students don't start...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-10)
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This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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