Legacy Limits
Sometimes the hardware or software we use prevents upgrades, which isn't necessarily good for any of us.
2017-01-20
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Editorial
The (Former) Complexity of PowerShell
Steve Jones notes that PowerShell seems to becoming an easier to use language for SQL Server professionals.
2022-03-09 (first published: 2017-01-19)
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2017-01-18
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Delaying Patches is Problematic
Many of our security issues come down to not patching software when there are updates available.
2017-01-17
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Writing the Correct Query is Important
Making simple mistakes in queries can have far reaching consequences.
2017-01-16
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The Development Lab
This week Steve Jones looks at hardware and the ways in which you might assemble a set of computers for building software.
2017-01-16
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Securing Your Instances
This week Steve Jones looks at moving the port numbers of your instances for a bit of security.
2022-11-25 (first published: 2017-01-13)
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Backup Data Security
We need better security for our data, especially for our choices in managing data.
2017-01-12
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2017-01-11
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SQL Server is Getting More Popular
Today, Steve Jones looks at the popularity of SQL Server, which was named DBMS of 2017.
2017-01-10
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Blogs
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
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...
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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