Come See the Future of Database DevOps at SQL Sat Austin
I’ll be coming to SQL Saturday #890 – Austin in just over a week. Austin is a great technology town, and this should be one of the larger SQL...
2019-07-03
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The Voice of the DBA
Getting Started with Spawn
I’m excited that the Redgate Foundry is working on some cool projects. The Future of DevOps is one and part of that work is with Spawn. I’ve played with...
2019-07-16 (first published: 2019-07-01)
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Honored to be a Microsoft MVP
Today is the renewal date for Microsoft MVPs. I received an email a short while ago informing me that I was being awarded again for the July 2019 –...
2019-07-01
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Basic User Functions in R
As I’ve been learning more about the data platform, I’ve been exposed to some R language code. This makes sense, as more comprehensive data analysis needs something other than...
2019-07-12 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Watch the State of SQL Server Monitoring tomorrow
Tomorrow Redgate is running a webinar on the State of SQL Server Monitoring with Grant, Chris Yates, Annette Allen, and Tony Maddonna. You can register now and attend on...
2019-06-24
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SQLServerCentral–Fixing the Time Zone
One of the bugs features of the bbPress forum software is that all posts were shown in a time zone, which for us was a default of UTC. Not...
2019-06-22
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Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola
One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s...
2019-06-20
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A Double Day
I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...
2019-06-16
14 reads
Simulating Load
I needed to generate some load for a demo and wasn’t looking forward to doing it. I was in a hurry, and didn’t want to deal with a lot...
2019-06-27 (first published: 2019-06-12)
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The Data Platform is Important
I didn’t attend the //build/ conference this year and am slightly disappointed. Only slightly, since I was in these cities in May already and didn’t need another trip: London,...
2019-06-21 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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