A Flock of SQL Servers
Do you want to integrate Twitter with your database server? Steve Jones asks the question this week.
SQL Server Restore Tutorial
What good is a backup if you do not know to restore the backup? In this tutorial you will look at what restore options are available and which options are only accessible using T-SQL commands.
PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter presents Data Warehouse Architecture
On Thursday August 18th, John Racer will discuss some common architects and practices for Data Warehouses.
The Pencil Analogy
Today we have a guest editorial from Brad Wallace that is an attempt to answer the question 'Why is database engineering so expensive?'
When Did Merge Replication Subscribers Last Sync?
The article presents an automated process to see when remote servers last synced to publisher and send notification reminders.
SQL Server Index Maintenance Performance Tuning for Large Tables
If you think about it carefully, you’ll realise, that index maintenance is necessary and that it makes sense, and that SQL Server is not doing this task automatically according to the book.
Benefits
Benefits for workers seem to be on the decline. Steve Jones talks about the issue, which might be something you give more weight to when choosing your next job.
My Experiences at SQL Saturday 64
A commentary of the experiences of James Dimauro at SQL Saturday #64 in Baton Rouge, LA in August 2011.
Using SQL Monitor in the Real World Webinar
On Tuesday August 23rd, Brad McGehee will take you through real-world examples to show what Red Gate SQL Monitor can do for you.
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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