Webcast – Small Changes Can Make a World of Difference
This Thursday, 10AM GMT, I will be hosted by Dell’s Richard Douglas (blog|twitter) for a webcast. I will present my...
2014-03-18
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This Thursday, 10AM GMT, I will be hosted by Dell’s Richard Douglas (blog|twitter) for a webcast. I will present my...
2014-03-18
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Earlier this week, I delivered a presentation called “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to my local user group.
Among other...
2014-03-05
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I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...
2014-02-20
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Here’s a newsflash: You may not thing so, but you are expensive. There’s no point in endless performance tuning. I love...
2014-01-28
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It’s 2014 now. I hope you had fun in new year’s eve.
2013 was an amazing and intense year. To recap...
2014-01-02
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This post is for T-SQL Tuesday #49, the monthly blog party of the community.
This tradition was started by Adam...
2013-12-10
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While in SQLRally Amsterdam, I had the honor to interview Brent Ozar (blog | twitter), Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog | twitter)...
2013-12-09
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The past week I had the pleasure to attend SQLRally Amsterdam.
I took a flight from Tel-Aviv to Amsterdam and got...
2013-11-11
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Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 in order to allow us have better control over our system resource...
2013-10-09
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Whether you’re just starting out or already a few years in the game, you’re probably wondering how you can become...
2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
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