What is SQL Server not good at?
Today Steve Jones talks about some of the problems in SQL Server. Should we be documenting the situations in which features don't work well?
2013-11-21
361 reads
Editorial
It Starts with Version Control
Steve Jones knows that good development practices require lots of skill and practice, but the basis for stability with your code is version control. He talks about some reasons why you might want to implement it.
2013-11-20
422 reads
Who Inspires You?
Today we have a guest editorial from Chris Shaw. After the recent PASS Summit, Chris talks about the value of getting inspired by people he listens to talking about SQL Server.
2013-11-18
121 reads
What Counts for a DBA: Deduction
Like Sherlock Holmes, a DBA needs the sound deductive reasoning to pinpoint the root cause of a crime, in amongst a thousand interesting but irrelevant details.
2013-11-18
139 reads
Dream Jobs
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy asks today if you've thought about a dream job, and if so, what would it be?
2013-11-15
176 reads
Time for Learning
Today Steve Jones talks about the time required to increase your skills and debates about what time you need to invest each year to gain knowledge.
2013-11-14
251 reads
Runtime Code
Do you test your code? What about code that is generated by applications and executed at runtime. Is that tested well? Steve Jones wonders.
2013-11-13
132 reads
Test Coverage
We don't test software well enough. Obviously we don't write high enough quality software, but testing should catch more issues. Steve Jones talks about how you can perform better T-SQL testing.
2016-12-20 (first published: 2013-11-12)
267 reads
Cyberwar
Today Steve Jones talks about the prospect of cyberwar and the potential impacts on corporate systems. Perhaps we ought to be building better, more secure software.
2013-11-11
99 reads
Cloud Storage. Make it the present instead of the future.
In which Phil Factor wonders why all the different cloud storage offerings are so different, sparse in their features, crude and incompatible
2013-11-11
97 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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