Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Comparing an Old Running Total to Window Functions
Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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Comparing an Old Running Total to Window Functions
Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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Simple Talks Episode 7
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with Ryan as the main host. Simple Talks is the Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan,...
2024-09-27
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A New Word: the McFly effect
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2024-09-27
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Connection String Confusion in SSMS
Recently I was trying to use a connection string to connect in SSMS. There are some tools that have a connection string available as an output, including some Redgate...
2024-10-11 (first published: 2024-09-25)
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Small Data SF 2024
I have often made an effort to attend conferences in the past to grow my career. Even today, when I speak at a conference, I’ll try to go to...
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A New Word: Mottleheaded
mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family – mixing a medley of ingredients that...
2024-09-20
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Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell script testing if the installed flyway version matches a specific string? That seemed simple, but...
2024-10-04 (first published: 2024-09-18)
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers