Better Communication of Information
Learning to better display the information contained in our data is a skill. Steve has a few thoughts today on learning to improve this for himself.
2022-06-20
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Editorials
A New SQL Server Vulnerability
A new vulnerability for SQL Server is covered by a number of patches this week.
2022-06-18
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2022-06-17
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Becoming a Better DBA
Steve has some advice on how to be a better DBA, or really better at whatever career you choose.
2022-06-15
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Flawed Data Integration
These days we often have multiple applications that need to exchange data in use by customers. Steve shares a few thoughts on his recent experiences.
2022-06-13
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Building a PC
Steve has a few thoughts on building your own PC to help you with work or your career.
2022-06-10
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One or Many Databases
When you have multiple clients in your application, do you want one or many databases?
2022-06-08
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Are Cubes Dead?
Is the idea of an Analysis Services cube something that is no longer relevant for modern data analysis? Steve thinks it might be.
2022-06-06
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The Nightmare Letter
The GDPR may bring nightmare letters like the one linked to from the editorial.
2022-06-03 (first published: 2018-03-28)
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Production Subsets
Working with data in development or test environments can be challenging. This week Steve Jones asks how you might deal with the volume of data and whether you like subsets.
2022-06-01 (first published: 2014-08-22)
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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,...
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Question of the Day
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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