Monday Monitor Tips: Projecting Disk Space
One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an estate. There might be one or two servers that you watch closely, or that are...
2024-11-11 (first published: 2024-10-28)
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The Voice of the DBA
A New Word: Feresy
feresy – n. the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t understand, even though they might be changes for the better, because it forces you to...
2024-10-25
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Using SQL Compare in Read-Only Databases
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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Denver Dev Day Oct 2024 Slides
Here are the slides from my talk today: CI in Azure DevOps If you have questions, please feel free to contact me (top menu above).
2024-10-18
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Should I Learn PostgreSQL
I got asked this question recently: I constantly see PostgreSQL on Microsoft slides, email, ads, etc. My MCADAA exam started with an entire section on it. I’m trying to...
2024-11-01 (first published: 2024-10-18)
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A New Word: Hickering
hickering – n. the habit of falling hard for whatever pretty new acquaintance happens to come along, spending hours wallowing in the handful of details you can gather about...
2024-10-18
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Using Copilot to help me update SQL Saturday
An interesting AI experiment here with Copilot from GitHub in handling some code I don’t work with that often. Read on and watch. This is part of a series...
2024-11-06 (first published: 2024-10-16)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Knowing Your RPO
A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed them a few things from the Estate tab in Redgate Monitor. This post covers a...
2024-10-28 (first published: 2024-10-14)
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Webinar tomorrow: The Role of Databases in the Era of AI
I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow with Rie Merritt from Microsoft. We’ll be talking about some of the sessions that Microsoft has planned for the PASS Data Community Summit as...
2024-10-14
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A New Word: Opia
opia – n. the ambiguous intensity of eye contact The entry for this says “so much can be said in a glance, “ which I think is very true....
2024-10-11
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers