Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about the databases. Uptime, performance, behaviors, errors, corruption and a...
2019-03-19
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Blog Posts
Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about...
2019-03-19
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PASS turns 20
Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run...
2019-03-19
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Take the 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Survey: Here’s What’s in It For You
Calling all Database Administrators, Developers, Analysts, Consultants, and Managers: Redgate has a survey open asking how you monitor your SQL Servers. Take the survey before April 5, 2019. Your...
2019-03-19
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The SQL Server Data Row Size Question: Why is It Bigger?
This morning, I received the following question from a user: Hello Madam, Could you please clarify SQLServer “Data Row” size: If I run the script below on SQL Server...
2019-03-19
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Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time
Watch this week’s episode on YouTubeAT TIME ZONE is great because it makes it easy to perform daylight saving time and...
2019-03-19 (first published: 2019-03-05)
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A Week of SQL Server 2019
I’m in Redmond, or Bellevue, or somewhere nearby. Not completely sure where the Microsoft MVP Summit is this week (as...
2019-03-18
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Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred within it. If you haven’t heard of the GDPR,...
2019-03-18
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Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred...
2019-03-18
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Disk Space and SQL Server
One of the frequently required job functions of the database administrator is to track disk space consumption. Whether this requirement comes from management or from a learning opportunity after a...
2019-03-18
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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