Grant Truncate Table Permissions in SQL Server without ALTER Table
How do you grant a SQL Server developer truncate table permission without giving them the ability to alter the table? Check out the examples and explanation in this tip.
Stairway to SQL Server Replication - Level 6: Merge Replication - Publication
This level covers the details of SQL Server transactional and merge replication, from understanding the basic terminology and methodology of setting up replication, to describing how it works and how the basic replication processes can be monitored.
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2)
The second of a series by Paul White examining the APPLY operator. In this section learn how this operator compares with joins and about both the cross and outer options.
WWBOD
This Friday's poll asks you to tell us what you'd do if you won the lottery. Is there something that you'd rather be doing than your current job? Dream a little and let us know.
SQL Server Log Shipping to a Different Domain or Workgroup
Sometimes the requirement arises to provide a copy of your database to an off-site location, such as a disaster recovery datacenter. Log Shipping is one of the most popular, proven technologies used to create a copy of your databases on a remote server.
Coding More Carefully
If you had less resources or compilation too longer, would you code more carefully? Steve Jones talks about the benefits that might come from not having the latest and greatest hardware.
ETL Magic with SSIS – Part II
Part II of a discussion and demonstration of ETL of a CSV data file using SSIS.
Grant Fritchey's SQL Server Howlers
We decided to ask various well-known SQL Server people to write about their favorite SQL Server Howlers. These are those common misunderstandings about how SQL Server works that end in tears, and plaintive forum questions. Grant Fritchey opens the series with some of those howlers that stick in the mind.
Cloud Safety
Is the cloud secure? How can you be sure? Steve Jones talks a little about some ways you can try to check on your cloud provider.
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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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