This month is Women’s History Month, and it’s a chance to stop and think about the impact that women have had in history. After reading Monica Rathbun’s post on...
2020-03-13 (first published: 2020-03-03)
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I deliberately didn’t set any goals at the start of 2020 since I was taking six weeks off for a sabbatical. That’s done, and it’s time to look forward....
2020-03-06 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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According to this post, I rate 2019 as a Failure. Of the books I planned to read, I read 2. I started 2 others, but they’re in progress, even...
2020-02-28
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I love SQL Prompt, and I’m regularly impressed by the enhancements our teams continue to make in the product. One item that I found interesting recently was schema filtering....
2020-03-04 (first published: 2020-02-27)
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UPDATE: This post originally priced Charlotte, NC, but the Summit is in Houston, TX. I have corrected costs and locations. The difference is about $300 less for a flight...
2020-01-22 (first published: 2020-01-13)
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This won’t be the last blog I write for six weeks, but it is the last one I’ll syndicate and in which write about technical stuff. Today is my...
2020-01-21 (first published: 2020-01-10)
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. When you install Windows, by default, the execution...
2020-01-08
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. PowerShell is the hot new scripting language for...
2020-01-09 (first published: 2019-12-27)
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I discovered recently that there was a change made in SQL Server 2017 to the way that symmetric key passphrases are hashed. There’s a KB article that notes the...
2020-01-06 (first published: 2019-12-23)
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I am a big fan of snippets in SQL Prompt, often using them in demos to quickly get code written. However, I’ve liked the idea of snippets and templates...
2019-12-20
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By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
I am trying to create a filter on a SQL Server audit to capture...
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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