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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Editorial
Code Building Code
Using code to help you write code is a time honored tradition in software development.
2019-04-09
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You're not really that good at SQL Server
Steve reminds some people that there are reasons to continue to improve your skills.
2019-04-08
1,483 reads
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a platform from Microsoft that might be an interesting fit
2019-04-05
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2019-04-04
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I'm In Charge of Books Online
Today Steve has an announcement about his role in moving Books Online forward.
2019-04-01
513 reads
Containers Are The Present, Not the Future
Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]
2019-03-30
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Trunk Based Database Development
Trunk based development is what many of us do with shared database servers.
2019-03-29
203 reads
Giving Computers Ethics
There is a need to ensure we decide what ethics a computer system ought to have.
2019-03-27
40 reads
No More SQL Server Installs
Today, Steve wonders when we'll stop installing SQL Server on a host machine.
2019-03-26
246 reads
Blogs
SQL in the City Comes Back to Seattle
By Steve Jones
This year at the PASS Summit, Redgate is holding our SQL in the City...
Backup Techniques for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
By Arun Sirpal
In the previous blog post I did a quick overview building a SQL VM...
SQLCover 0.5 - Fixes, smaller features and an exciting surprise
By Ed Elliott
It has been a little while but I have updated SQLCover to include a...
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