Picking a Starting Table in Test Data Manager
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-02-17 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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SQL Server Migration Using a Distributed Availability Group
SQL Server migrations are a headache, ask anyone who’s been through the pain of moving a reasonably large server and I’m sure they will agree. There are all sorts...
2025-02-19 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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How to Learn SQL Without Quitting Your Day Job
Juggling meetings, deadlines, and family? Yeah, learning SQL might seem like climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops. But guess what? You absolutely can become an SQL whiz without sacrificing your...
2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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T-SQL Tuesday #183 Invite: Tracking Permissions
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this month I’m hosting. I realized that I didn’t host in 2024 and since I run the thing, I ought to be...
2025-02-04
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Declaring a Complex PK in a CREATE TABLE: #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I was talking with someone who had not named any of the primary keys (PKs) in their database. They used system generated names and when they ran comparisons,...
2025-02-03
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Microsoft Entra Authentication for Azure PostgreSQL
Straight from Microsoft’s documentation “Microsoft Entra authentication is a mechanism of connecting to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server by using identities defined in Microsoft Entra ID. With Microsoft...
2025-02-12 (first published: 2025-02-03)
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Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Multi-Array Database Snapshots
In this post, the fourth in our series, I want to share an example demonstrating SQL Server 2022’s T-SQL Snapshot Backup feature in a scenario where a database spans...
2025-02-10 (first published: 2025-02-01)
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AIs Struggle with Family
This post looks at a logic problem asked to an AI, and which is struggles at finding an answer. This is based on an article noting this question stumps...
2025-02-07 (first published: 2025-01-31)
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Advice I Like: Why am I doing this?
You are never too young to wonder “Why am I still doing this?” You need to have an excellent answer – from Excellent Advice for Living I’d say that...
2025-01-31
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Common Issues When Using Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Incremental Loads
I have a few clients that incrementally load tables from a SQL Server source into their data warehouse or lakehouse by using change tracking. Lately, they encountered some issues...
2025-01-31
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Blogs
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits III
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