Data Conferences – Worth Every Dollar
Some of the best career enhancers you can buy. Why I Go to Conferences I go for two big reasons: Learning from the best. The folks teaching at...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-12)
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Some of the best career enhancers you can buy. Why I Go to Conferences I go for two big reasons: Learning from the best. The folks teaching at...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-12)
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One of the language changes in SQL Server 2025 that I’ve seen a lot of people mention is the addition of RegEx functions to T-SQL. I decided to take...
2025-11-12
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I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as well. There are more things in this release than I expected, probably because of the...
2025-11-11
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I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases years ago. I did not wake up one day and decide, “I am going to...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook to integrate with ServiceNow. However, they were also trying to integrate in a richer way...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree. I've built a web tool that helps visualize this tree as a learning exercise.
Foreword
I've leveraged...
2025-12-03 (first published: 2025-11-09)
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss our ALS journey. I realized we were writing about ALS on the Data on Wheels...
2025-11-08
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It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be downloaded. Well, it cannot be downloaded from the user interface, that is. Suppose you have...
2025-11-26 (first published: 2025-11-06)
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By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers