Maintenance Plan Owner – Back to Basics
Have you ever taken over a server that had several maintenance plans on it? Have you ever really checked who the owner of those plans is? Or, maybe you...
2018-12-13
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Blog Posts
Naming Convention Hall of Shame
Call me pedantic, but I can be a stickler for standardized naming conventions. Whether it’s application code, database objects, documentation,...
2018-12-13
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New Resumable Online Index Create SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2019 brings a very exciting new feature that, is long overdue. Resumable online index create is one of...
2018-12-13 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Power BI Monthly Digest – December 2018
In this month’s Power BI Digest with my friend Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through...
2018-12-13
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Setting up CentOS to run docker for SQL Server
This blog post is about running SQL Server in a docker container on CentOS Linux distribution.
This was both an experiment...
2018-12-13
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Setting up SQL Server replication in containers
Last week I saw a thread on twitter about how to get replication setup for SQL Server running in a...
2018-12-13
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SSMS – Docker SQL Server
once we install SQL Server on Docker which we discussed in our last blog, we can connect Docker SQL Server...
2018-12-13
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TDE and DDM
Someone asked a question about TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) and DDM (Dynamic Data Masking), which are two different technologies that...
2018-12-13 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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The Default Frame for Window Functions
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-12-13
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The Eleven Days of Festivus 2018
It’s that time again! My Eleven Days of Festivus blogging extravaganza is now in its third year, and I’m happy...
2018-12-13
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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