Database modelling in a post-SSMS world: dbForge Studio
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) will no longer include the visual Database Diagrams...
2019-01-16
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Blog Posts
Inspector V1.3 hotfix
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow...
2019-01-16
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Short Circuiting Your Session
It isn’t very often that one would consider a short circuit to be a desired outcome. In SQL Server we...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-05)
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Watch all my free PASS Summit recordings– and more videos at Pass.org
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, by the way, sign up here). In the midst of a discussion about the...
2019-01-16
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Creating my own Map Shapefiles for Power BI
(2019-Jan-06) In the past, I used to always rely on shapefiles crafted by others to create my map visualizations in...
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-06)
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Inspector V1.3 now available
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub.
We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the...
2019-01-15
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Moving off SQL Server 2008 / R2 – What can Azure offer?
You will very likely know that SQL Server 2008 / R2 end of support is on July 9th 2019. Not that...
2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
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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...
Forums
SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
Database security permissions save script
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Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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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