Technology Flows Downstream
The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.
2019-06-20
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Editorials
An Alert Philosophy
Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]
2019-06-19
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SSMS or SSDT
The question this week deals with tools. Steve Jones is looking to see which tools are preferred by most database developers.
2019-06-17 (first published: 2015-03-27)
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Microsoft and Oracle Cloud Partnership
Many of us checked to make sure it wasn’t April Fools Day a couple of years ago when Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2017 would run on Linux. This means that some shops who want to run SQL Server, but not Windows Server, now can. But it also means that SQL Server professionals need to […]
2019-06-15
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2019-06-14 (first published: 2015-05-19)
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Are We Suckers?
This week Steve Jones wonders if we work too much. Do we give more to our employers than they give to us?
2019-06-11 (first published: 2015-12-18)
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Setting Session Skill Levels
Kathi Kellenberger discusses the challenge of deciding how to describe the content in the sessions she presents.
2019-06-10
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Building or Buying Analytics
One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]
2019-06-08
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Microsoft Exercise
We have got a deal for you, Microsoft is concerned about the health of your company and is doing something about it.
2019-06-07 (first published: 2015-04-27)
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Cloud Pace
There are a couple big changes that the cloud brings to us. Steve has a few comments today.
2019-06-06
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Foreach Loop still executes after process and delete all the folders
I have two challenges XML source control not displaying the XML file parent node...
Which 'Where' statement conditional upon a variable
Thanks in advance for any clues on this. I am trying to write a...
Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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