Weekly reading #18
Ready for vacations? The CodingFamily team is almost ready – we have some vacations plans including great conferences during summer and in the autumn. T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best...
2019-06-17
32 reads
Blog Posts
A Double Day
I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...
2019-06-16
43 reads
Back with new focus
Back with a new focus First let me say wow can’t believe that it has been almost 3 years since I have blogged. The last few years my career...
2019-06-16
38 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-06-16)
Hello Data girls and guys! A lot of Microsoft’s announcements in many areas of the data platform. Here you have a big portion of news today. Press Unlock the...
2019-06-16
30 reads
High Security Prices–Always Encrypted 2019 needs Datacenter Edition
I was recently doing some work on Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2019 and needed to set up an HGS server. I went through most of the setup, and...
2019-06-14 (first published: 2019-05-30)
336 reads
Leadership Part 1: Team building
One of the most challenging aspects of being a good leader is building a team that can support the initiatives you will set forth. Without a team that will...
2019-06-14 (first published: 2019-05-28)
476 reads
Notes from Jacksonville, Atlanta, and South Florida
Misc notes: Jax. Ice cream break in the afternoon is nice, but the waffle cones on site make all the difference, the smell is hard to miss! Jax. Rooms...
2019-06-14
29 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando 2019 Begins
We’ll be event number 911, set for September 28th at our usual location at Seminole State College. Maybe something interesting to do there as far as a theme. Call...
2019-06-14
60 reads
12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Thanks to you, we just crossed the 2k subscriber mark! Over the past several week’s I’ve been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve...
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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As a DBA, how do I offload some of my work?
I don't have time for this “I am a DBA, I am busy, too busy. Developers keep pushing changes to production without me reviewing the code, and now I...
2019-06-13
19 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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My PASS Summit West 2026
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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