When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
A colleague left the company, a couple of days after SQL Server processes start failing...what do you do?
2020-09-29
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Security
2020-09-10
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2020-09-10
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The Best Security for Database Administrators
Today Steve talks about limiting security issues for administrators.
2020-09-08
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Can You Catch SQL Injection?
Steve found an attack against Google's SQL database that their SREs detected.
2020-09-03
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Better Government Security Through DevOps
DevOps can help provide better security for your databases.
2020-08-26
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Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
If you own a database with encrypted modules but you don't have a decrypted version, this can be a horror story.
Learn how to get back the code of the encrypted modules using dbatools.
2020-08-18
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Attacks on Unsecured Databases
Unsecured databases are a problem, but someone is fighting this issue by wiping them out.
2020-08-11
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A Data Attack
A ransomware attack takes down Garmin, not just the company, but also Steve's data. He has a few thoughts about what this might mean for our data.
2020-08-10
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2020-08-06
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Blogs
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...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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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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