CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger
We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it was a good intro, but as someone noted in the comments, how do you use...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-03-26)
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The Voice of the DBA
Monday Monitor Tips: Looking Back in Time
Often we find out about a problem reported by a customer after the incident has passed. This might be from a trouble ticket or even an email that we...
2025-03-24
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Friday Flyway Tips: State-based deployment with Flyway Teams
I was asked about state-based deployments in Flyway Teams, so I decided to show how this can work with a quick demo. This post walks through the process. I’ve...
2025-04-04 (first published: 2025-03-21)
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Advice I Like: The Main Thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – from Excellent Advice for Living We can summarize this advice as focus on what’s important. I...
2025-03-21
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DATEADD Truncates the Number Parameter: #SQLNewBlogger
This was an interesting thing I saw in a Question of the Day submission. I hadn’t thought about the issue, but apparently DATEADD truncates values rather than rounding them....
2025-03-19
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Can an AI Help Me Find a Job?
I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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The Book of Redgate: What’s Great about Redgate?
“I’m sick of hearing about Red Gate.” The first article in the book has this title, which might seem strange, but the short piece then talks about how many...
2025-03-14
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Tally Table Alternatives: #SQLNewBlogger
We published an article recently at SQL Server Central on Tally Tables in Fabric from John Miner. In it he showed how this can be efficient. A day after...
2025-03-21 (first published: 2025-03-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #184–Mentoring
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin, and it’s a good one that asks us where we are making the world better. The topic is...
2025-03-11
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A New Word: Waldosia
waldosia– n. a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your...
2025-03-07
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
The T-SQL Tuesday #201 round-up: nine bloggers on whether temp tables are a friend...
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
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RegEx Functions I
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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