Creating a “Real” Copy of a View: #SQLNewBlogger
I saw a post where a developer was trying to read the Information Schema views to create a copy of a view as a “real” table, a user table....
2024-12-23 (first published: 2024-12-11)
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The Voice of the DBA
T-SQL Tuesday #181: A Technology Present
It’s the last T-SQL Tuesday of the year, and it’s amazing to think we’ve gotten to #181. That’s over 15 years of monthly blog parties. This month we have...
2024-12-10
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Grinding Away: Brent Ozar
Brent Ozar is a very successful DBA/consultant/speaker/business owner in the data platform space. Many of you have likely seen him speak, read his blog, used his sp_Blitz script, or...
2024-12-20 (first published: 2024-12-09)
637 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: Am I Patched?
One of the things that I think is neat is that Redgate Monitor helps you track patching on your systems. This is something that has been challenging in every...
2024-12-16 (first published: 2024-12-09)
284 reads
Big Queries, Big Money
I had been meaning to post this, so as I finished a piece that referenced this, I decided to post the picture. This was from Small Data SF, where...
2024-12-06
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A New Word: Fardle-dun
fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and...
2024-12-06
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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger
I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases....
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-04)
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A New Word: Nachlophobia
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial in the moment, an audit of your life...
2024-11-29
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Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume) Redgate Monitor and needed more job history than they had in msdb.sysjobhistory. They wanted to...
2024-12-09 (first published: 2024-11-27)
240 reads
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS Data Community Summit. This was a lot of fun, us grabbing a space in the...
2024-12-06 (first published: 2024-11-22)
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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