Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 41 – Image Viewer)
In this module you will learn how to use the Image Viewer Power BI Custom Visual. The Image Viewer visual...
2017-03-14 (first published: 2017-03-07)
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Copying your SQL Database
If you ever need to move a copy of a SQL database in Azure across servers then here is a...
2017-03-07
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New Article – Application Database Security Design (Part 1 – Authentication)
In conjunction with the webinar I gave last month for MSSQLTips, I’ve started an article series on application database security...
2017-03-17 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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How Row versioning impact tempDB ?
Scenario: DBA found that tempdDBdatabase usage is getting high and most of the size is consumed by row versioning. DBA...
2017-03-06
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VMware Updates In-Guest Clocks When You Say Not To
VMware’s VMTools package has some options for synchronizing the in-guest clock with the time of the ESXi host. By default,...
2017-03-16 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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Dots, Skills, and SQL Clone: A Contest from Redgate
Redgate just launched SQL Clone, a new product that can provision copies of databases in seconds. By copies, I mean...
2017-03-15 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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SQL Clone and a Little Competition
Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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Using GROUP BY instead of DISTINCT
Recently, Aaron Bertrand (b/t) posted Performance Surprises and Assumptions : GROUP BY vs. DISTINCT. In it he says he prefers GROUP...
2017-03-06
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SQL Server Fixed Role Permissions
It is very important to understand who has what level of access within the server and databases on that server. Sometimes we see users being granted server or database...
2017-03-06
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SQL Server Fixed Role Permissions
Roles and Permissions
Some of my recent articles have been focused on permissions and security. There is good reason for that – security...
2017-03-15 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Forums
Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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