The Details are in the Small Print
Phil Factor on the rewards of learning the zen-like skill of writing, reading and understanding IT documentation.
2017-03-13
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Editorial
Only as Good as Your Auditor
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about auditing your organization.
2017-03-10
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Database Cattle
Steve Jones says you should treat your database servers like cattle. It makes life easier.
2017-03-09
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The Migration Checklist
Today Steve Jones talks about the checklist you would want if you needed to move a SQL Server instance to new hardware.
2017-03-08
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2017-03-07
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Containing the Work
Containers are valuable in many software domains. Are there places we, as data professionals, would like to use software containment?
2017-03-06
96 reads
Creative IT Learning
If a successful IT career is just as much about tenacity, interest and retention as it is about brainpower, then how does one go about continuous learning?
2017-03-06
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Null Defaults
Today Steve Jones asks what default values you might choose for new columns in a table.
2017-03-03
127 reads
Why I am Excited about SQL Server on Linux
Read why Solomon Rutzky is excited about SQL Server running on Linux.
2017-03-02
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Detecting Issues
How do you detect issues in your systems? Testing? Monitoring? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that we should find ways to do so before our customers.
2026-03-02 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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