Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT
This article explores how enabling READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT on your SQL Server database might ease excessive blocking.
This article explores how enabling READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT on your SQL Server database might ease excessive blocking.
After a recent data breach, Steve read about an analysis of the data. He has a few thoughts on the process that Troy Hunt went through to dig into the data.
Learn how you can recover a database that is in suspect mode.
Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.
I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes.
SQL Injection continues to be a problem and Steve has a few thoughts today on how to reduce your vulnerabilities.
To help mark Redgate’s 25th Birthday, the company has launched a new initiative to foster knowledge and skills in the data industry.
The goal of this tutorial is to enable ETL developers to obtain practical knowledge to exploit SSIS in transforming and combining data through hands-on exploration to be ready for real-world challenges in managing information.
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers