The Blast Radius of a database
Phil Factor feels that the database gets the short shrift in any outage - it's time to stop saying "the database has gone down" and time to start thinking about the resilience of the entire system.
2019-05-04
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Database Design and Implementation
Downgrading A SQL Server Database To An Older Version
"How do I restore a SQL Server backup to a previous version of SQL Server?" is a commonly-asked question. The answer, of course, is you don't - but if you must, there may be some solutions.
2019-05-03
Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How do you choose whether to pluralize or not?
2019-05-03
Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures
While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and has the capability to recover from a disaster scenario. In this article, Samir Behara discusses the options available when designing the database architecture to achieve scalability.
2019-05-02
Understanding Data Modeling Part 2: "E/RM" and "RDM"
In Part 1 we presented some foundation knowledge with which to debunk misconceptions lurking in the industry's modeling mess that Friesendal has tried to map, and to show how...
2019-04-22
Understanding Your Database
Steve notes that many of us might not completely understand every part of our database, but it's information that can be helpful in cleaning out unnecessary entities.
2019-04-10
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The Cost of Useless Surrogate Keys in Relationship Tables
What’s a good natural key? This is a very difficult question for most entities when you design your schema. In some rare cases, there seems to be an “obvious” candidate, such as a variety of ISO standards.
2019-04-05
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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