All Day, Training Day at SQLBits
It’s a somewhat late addition, but I have an all-day Training Day at SQLBits. It takes place on Thursday, February...
2019-01-23
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The Scary DBA
Critiquing Grant Fritchey: Circa 2008
For several years, I ran a regular feature on this blog, Speaker of the Month. I attend a lot of...
2019-01-22
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Get Your Learn On
There is one truth that I can say about technology with an absolute certainty: It’s going to change. Get your...
2019-01-21
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DevOps and Automation Will Eliminate the DBA
I’ve been reading about the death of the DBA ever since I first made the jump from full time developer...
2019-01-23 (first published: 2019-01-14)
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PowerShell to Simulate Load
Gathering metrics is quite difficult if there are no queries. So, if you’re working in non-production environments, but you still...
2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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Redgate Reviews 2018, Predicts 2019
Our boss came to us and said, “We need one more webinar to round out the year.” Well, we’re just...
2018-12-17
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Privacy and Protection in the Age of the GDPR
We’re seeing more and more GDPR-style laws coming out from various governments. With the GDPR starting to do enforcement at...
2018-12-10
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Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join
It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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Forcing a Plan That Has a Plan Guide
The question that came up during a recent class I was teaching was: What if you have a plan guide...
2018-12-11 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Query Store and Plan Cache Plans Compared
Query Store plans and the plans in cache are identical, right? There won’t be differences because the plan that is...
2018-12-03 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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