Mirroring and different sector sizes? BAD IDEA!
Be carefull when replacing a defective (FLASH) storage device, its sector sizes may vary without you knowing it.
Set a Networking Goal For The Year
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Any asks you to think about your career and your network for 2012.
Options to reinitialize subscriptions in SQL Server replication
I have transactional replication configured in my production environment with multiple subscribers. The business team has requested that one of the subscriptions be reinitialized, because they think there is some missing data. In this tip we look at the different options that you can use to reinitialize a subscription for transactional replication.
Pros and cons of six SQL table tools
This article shows how to use 6 SQL table-based tools to solve the same problem, and gives the pros and cons of each.
TSQL Challenge 72 - Calculate the Payroll Hours of Employees
This challenge invites you to solve a payroll challenge which requires to calculate the number of hours employee worked in a week.
Administrating SQL Server Integration Services - Planning, Documenting and Troubleshooting
SQL Server Integration Services is an essential component of SQL Server, and designed to perform a variety of routine and occasional tasks. It majors on ETL tasks and for administrative jobs across servers. The DBA needs also to be aware of their role in optimising SSIS by planning, trouble-shooting, optimising performance, and in documenting installations.
All I want for Christmas
This Friday before Christmas, Steve Jones has a fun poll. What would you like for Christmas? Any fun, interesting, fascinating tech toys?
Intersect, Except, Union, All and Any
Longtime author and expert DBA David Poole examines a few T-SQL commands that he has never used. Learn how some of these little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you.
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Git forked
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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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Expanding into Print
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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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