Redgate SQL Test utility isn’t showing up in SSMS
I had recently installed the SQL Toolbelt from Redgate at a client site on a laptop they’d supplied me.
(Fantastic product...
2018-03-21
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SQL Performance – Using Query Hint OPTION (FAST N)
It is fun working with SQL/Application developer where you exchange a lot of technical thoughts to find the root of...
2018-03-21
7,324 reads
Identify R Package Dependencies Using miniCRAN
Installing R packages in SQL Server 2017 is a breeze with the stored procedure sp_execute_external_script. But so far, it is limited...
2018-03-20
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Experiment with SQL Server and DBFS on Linux
Given that Microsoft now considers Linux a ‘first-class citizen’, SQL Server 2017 offers native support for Linux. It is engineered...
2018-03-20
359 reads
How To Steal Data Using Second Order SQL Injection Attacks
One misconception some people have about SQL injection is that it can only happen when concatenating a user input parameter...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2018-03-20)
5,035 reads
How To Steal Data Using Second Order SQL Injection Attacks
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One misconception some people have about SQL injection is that it can only happen when concatenating a user input parameter directly into your dynamically...
2018-03-20
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How To Steal Data Using Second Order SQL Injection Attacks
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One misconception some people have about SQL injection is that it can only happen when concatenating a user input parameter directly into your dynamically...
2018-03-20
20 reads
An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
In this series I’m going to be looking at enterprise architecture. Over the last few years...
2018-03-20
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Validating SMO security bugs with Pester
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are the .NET classes underpinning Management Studio and all good PowerShell that interfaces with SQL...
2018-03-20
64 reads
“The report server Web Portal URLs and Web Service URLs don’t match”
A client recently upgraded a server, and then started receiving this error when they tried to access the SSRS Reports...
2018-03-19
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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