Bench marking your environment is an important step when introducing new hardware, which is accomplished by running a test workload against the hardware. There are multiple ways to...
2019-10-03 (first published: 2019-09-27)
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Out of necessity are born the tools of laziness. This is a good thing. I have found that organizing and running a SQL Saturday event is a great way...
2019-09-23 (first published: 2019-09-13)
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In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless. This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure ecosystem. Moving to this...
2019-09-13 (first published: 2019-08-30)
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When dealing with cloud technology there is a phrase that everybody should remember: Physics Always Wins. There isn’t any way to get around the speed of light (2.98 x...
2019-07-26
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Recently, I needed to be able to determine the total size for all the most recent full backups for certain servers. Luckily for me these particular servers were using...
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-06-28)
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One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system...
2019-03-22
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Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes...
2019-04-03 (first published: 2019-03-15)
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Traveling in today’s age of technology is a lot easier than in the past. You can start your journey in...
2019-03-22 (first published: 2019-03-08)
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In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This...
2019-03-01
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A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about boot diagnostics and how they can help you troubleshoot issues when virtual...
2019-02-22
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By Steve Jones
This year at the PASS Summit, Redgate is holding our SQL in the City...
By Arun Sirpal
In the previous blog post I did a quick overview building a SQL VM...
By Ed Elliott
It has been a little while but I have updated SQLCover to include a...
Hello I have a SQL task that ran through yesterday in around 23...
Hi All, Need some help in exception handling. In below code, I want to...
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