Back To (Security) Basics
Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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The Monday Morning DBA
File This Under File Groups (Part 1)
I never had cause to give much consideration to storage when I was a SQL developer. The companies I worked...
2017-11-19
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Spaced-Out Strings
I came across this in a code review not long ago:
Three things pop into my head when I see this...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-13)
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A View On Views
In my experience, there are few database objects more poorly understood, misunderstood, misused, and outright abused, than the humble view....
2017-11-16 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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It’s All About The Joins
One of the most common mistakes I see made when creating tables (and I’ve been guilty of this myself too...
2017-10-29
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Welcome to The Monday Morning DBA
I started my IT career twenty years ago as a VB and C developer, wandered into C++ for a bit,...
2017-09-30
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Blogs
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
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SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: The AI-Ready Enterprise Database with Microsoft Fabric Integration
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Do You Really Need HA?
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned? See possible answers