Life Moves Pretty Fast

Driving my soon-to-be granddaughter to school today (my son is getting married and will adopt the young lady), we saw a dead armadillo, a turtle in the road (rescued it) and an escaped cow (left it alone). THEN... old soon-to-be granddad had forgotten lunch, so had to deliver that back at the school (cow must […]

How to Remove Constraints from a SQL Server Table

I need to drop constraints on a number of my SQL Server tables. Most of our constraints are primary key and foreign keys, but there are other constraints too. How can we script it so it will deploy with a pipeline in a repeatable manner?

Two Events, Two Worlds: A Week in the Life of a Technologist

Last week, I had the chance to speak at two very different events, and the contrast between them really stuck with me. The first was all a traditional vendor conference-  enterprise-level, built around a well-established product with over 40 years of vendor-driven development. Think polished sponsor tables, polished shoes, and more than a few suits […]

Level 5 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics: create and use Delta Lake - Part 2

This next article in the Stairway to Synapse looks at Delta tables and processing streaming data.

Navigating Your Test Data Challenges: Insights and Solutions

Join Redgate on May 1st for an insightful webinar cohosted with analyst firm, Bloor Research, featuring independent Senior Analyst Daniel Howard and Redgate's Steve Jones. Discover the biggest test data challenges, the latest approaches like AI synthetic data generation, and how effective test data management can benefit your entire organization. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and solutions.

Windows Clustered MSDTC and SQL Server 2019 mishap

Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each clustered SQL Server instance with its own Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) resource. Since SQL Server 2012 this advice has been withdrawn. Microsoft now recommends to provide your instance with its own MSDTC resource, once you notice the […]

Smile and Wave Boys

I won't even try to hide it. I got a huge kick out of the penguin characters in the animated movie, Madagascar. For those who don't know, they're trying to escape the zoo, but are trying to hide that from anyone discovering it. So, they put up a front, "Smile and wave boys. Smile and […]

Crazy number of Parameters… and a challenge

The other day, my lovable coworker and frequent Simple Talk writer: Grant Fritchey, sent this post on X:

How I Achieved Scalability in a. Amazon RDS Shared DB Connection Environment

This article shows a solution to the challenge of multiple databases on one RDS instance with different databases and the limitation of 5000 connections.

Inserting Sequences