A New Word: Fitching
fitching – v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good – wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour...
2024-07-12
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How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Site for Your WordPress Meetup Group
Taking advantage of our free site offer for your WordPress community? Here are some new templates you can use.
2024-07-11
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Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Copilot is an app that uses AI to help you find information, create content, and get things done faster (see What Is Copilot? Microsoft’s AI Assistant Explained). Copilot is...
2024-07-17 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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Test Data Manager in Under 10 Minutes
Test Data Manager (TDM) is a suite of products from Redgate that make it easy to build dev and test databases in seconds. It’s a nice rewrite of a...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #176 One piece of advice that you wish Past you had
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by a dear friend, long time SQL Server MVP and book author – Louis Davidson. Louis’s call is for us to blog about...
2024-07-24 (first published: 2024-07-09)
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2024-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice for Past Steve
I almost missed this month, so this is also a good #SQLNewBlogger post. I thought about it for a few minutes as I ate breakfast at my desk and...
2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-09)
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Identify Tables With Dropped Columns
On my last article - What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where’s my space? - I have shown what happens when we drop...
2024-07-22 (first published: 2024-07-09)
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Deleting Old Local Git Branches–#SQLNewBlogger
I had a lot of local branches for a repo (actually a few repos). I know these are old and not used anymore, so how do I delete them?...
2024-07-08
35 reads
Use Your Voice
If you want more of a career and less of a job, one thing you will have to do is learn to use your voice. I mean this on...
2024-07-08
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T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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