A two-year project involving a team of 15 people, a Future of Monitoring blog, input from thousands of IT professionals, and hundreds of hours brainstorming about how the world is changing has led to Red Gate’s newly released SQL Monitor.
Today we have an older editorial by Steve Jones being republished. This piece talks about security and why it might be a good idea to write down those passwords.
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
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In this next installment of his series on TDD, MVP Andy Leonard continues the development of his database.
This Friday Steve Jones asks the question about how you manage large numbers of SQL Server instances.
Your application code may look neat and clean, and you are using a sound Object-relational Mapper, but when you put the pedal to the metal, you're not getting the performance. The time has come to lift the hood and see what SQL is being generated by the ORM, and what part of your code is causing the bottlenecks. The effect can be spectacular.
Facebook has implemented a new security feature that Steve Jones thinks might work well for SQL Server as well.
Data structure virtualization is the constructing of a data structure utilizing pieces or fragments from other data structures. This article demonstrates how Data structure virtualization can be performed in ANSI SQL utilizing hierarchical processing techniques to produce hierarchically structured virtualized output.
Steve Jones talks about the workplace of the future, and a prediction from the Gartner Group that it will include swarms.
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When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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