Goodbye, Microsoft
A few years ago I took a new job at Microsoft, working as a Senior Content Developer, and as of this writing I own all the SQL Server content...
2026-10-05
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A few years ago I took a new job at Microsoft, working as a Senior Content Developer, and as of this writing I own all the SQL Server content...
2026-10-05
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I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that Look Too Easy. I decided to give you a few thoughts from me on the...
2026-10-14 (first published: 2026-10-05)
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I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But why keep this important visual warning at the bottom of the screen? In this post,...
2026-10-14 (first published: 2026-10-05)
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Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides – ArchitectingZeroDowntime.pptx Slides also at: https://dayofdata.org/2026-10-03-dayofdata1150/#schedule Code: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime Book: Refactoring Databases Some interesting questions. I’ll write...
2026-10-04
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I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of Redgate. Those values came from our founders, Simon Galbraith and Neil Davidson. I am lucky...
2026-10-02
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When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops. Three databases have no recorded full backup. One backup job failed. Many tools would link...
2026-10-12 (first published: 2026-10-02)
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 covered what AI-ready data means, Part 2 looked at...
2026-10-12 (first published: 2026-10-01)
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I recently attended SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, and as you would expect, there was a LOT of talk about Fabric, Azure, AI, agents, Copilot, and where the...
2026-09-30
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I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home, and for consistency’s sake, I run this on my Win11 laptop and the home machine....
2026-09-30
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Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built content in them takes a lot longer. Moving content to another workspace usually means redeploying...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-29)
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By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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