New Pluralsight Course – Understanding and Using Essential Tools in Enterprise Linux 7
My new course “Understanding and Using Essential Tools in Enterprise Linux 7” in now available on Pluralsight here!
This course targets...
2016-04-28
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Red Gate Dependency Tracker - Making Databases Into Moving Art
data structures are art
If anyone thinks that working with complex data structures is boring... I don't know what world they...
2016-04-27
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PowerShell – SQL Databases Backup Status Report of Multiple Servers
This post is a requirement from one of my blog reader.
There are plenty of scripts available to get the backup...
2016-04-27
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Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
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My Cable Modem Keeps Rebooting!
There are obviously quite a few things that could cause internet issues that are totally out of our control, but...
2016-04-27
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Certificates, Proxies and Jobs! Oh My!
Oh Noes! I have a job that requires me to run an SSIS package, cmdshell script, etc. And I need...
2016-04-27
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PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called...
2016-04-27
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My Cable Modem Keeps Rebooting!
There are obviously quite a few things that could cause internet issues that are totally out of our control, but...
2016-04-27
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Columnstore Index Enhancements in SQL Server 2016
One of my most favorite technologies is Columnstore. Thankfully, the guys at Microsoft seem to agree with me, because they...
2016-05-10 (first published: 2016-04-27)
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Power BI and the Bing Maps API
This week I was working on a project for a school up North. This customer wanted to use Power BI...
2016-05-10 (first published: 2016-04-26)
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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
"Click" your SQL Server into an MCP agent, with RBAC and full security
Hi guys and gals, I've created a system that automatically allows you to "generate"...
Demo Tracking Dropped Objects
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Randomly Selecting Columns and Rows from a Table or View
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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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