What's Your Code Quality?
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. What's the quality of your code? Do you measure it? And does it matter?
Understanding SQL Server 2008 R2 Fixed Database Level Roles
To easily manage the permissions in SQL Server databases, Microsoft has provided several roles in SQL Server which are security principals that group other principals.
Deleting Large Number of Records
Often someone will try to perform a delete on a large number of records and run into a number of problems. Slow performance, log growth, and more. Lynn Pettis shows us how to better handle this situation in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
Column-Level Encryption in SQL Server
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, column-level encryption and decryption capabilities were made available within the database, providing a solution for situations where one-off types of data need to be secured beyond your existing authorization, authentication or firewall settings. This article provides an overview and example of securing a column using native SQL Server cryptography functions.
Corporate Culture
One of the things I enjoy about work is seeing the various cultures that evolve. Some companies are rigid, some...
The Stairway Series
Today we launch a new series of content aimed at providing basic knowledge to people new to a section of SQL Server. Steve Jones comments on the way this series came about.
The Stairway Series
SQLServerCentral launches a new series of content today, aimed at helping you bootstrap your knowledge in specific areas of SQL Server.
StreamInsight: A new way to think about analyzing data
Last night’s Oregon SQL user
group meeting was very enlightening. Mark Simms form the SQLCAT team came
down from Redmond to talk...
Using SQL Server Integration Services and StreamInsight Together
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance
for enriching data integration scenarios by integrating StreamInsight with SQL
Server Integration Services. Specifically, we looked at the technical challenges
and solutions for such integration, by using a case study based on a customer
scenarios in the telecommunications sector.
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Forums
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Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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