Testing BackBlaze Restores
The most important thing for a data guy is having a way to restore data. If security, performance, etc. are...
2018-07-13 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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Why Aren’t You Using SSMS 17?
Last fall, Microsoft split the coding and release of SQL Server Management Studio away from any dependency on the server...
2018-07-12 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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Contained Database – No more need for Server Level Logins
Starting in SQL Server 2012 and in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft introduced the concept of a contained database. A contained...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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Community recognition
On the first day of January 2017, I was honoured to receive an email naming me as a Microsoft MVP...
2018-07-04
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Updating VSTS to SQL Change Automation
We (Redgate) released SQL Change Automation a few weeks back. This is the first stage to implementing a combined toolset...
2018-07-04
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Saving disk space by choosing the correct data type
"Database is almost 4 TB in size, user is complaining on long times for DEV data refresh and high storage...
2018-07-03
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Building Better Test Data on the Redgate Hub
I have a new piece published over at the Redgate Hub: Building Better Test Data with SQL Provision. Part of...
2018-07-03
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Mastering Index Tuning–Day 3
This is a short series of posts on the courses I took with Brent Ozar. I actually completed the courses...
2018-07-03
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Half-year round-up
So, to do the name “blog” justice, I should post something every now and then. Alright, here you go, let...
2018-07-03
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A bug in merge replication with FILESTREAM data
I wish I could say that every DBA has a love/hate relationship with Replication, but, let’s face it, it’s only...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-03)
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Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers