The Reading Poll
This week Steve Jones asks about how important reading is to you, and also about what our digital rights might be in a world where we have connected platforms.
T-SQL Best Practices
This article, the first in a series, discusses T-SQL coding best practices. Join Greg Larsen as he explains how to write queries to optimize SQL Server resources and improve performance.
Estimating Priorities
Steve Jones is more willing to ask for changes in software than the real world. Is that a good thing or not? Read on to find out.
Foreign Keys, Part 2 - SQL School Video
Continuing with his videos on Foreign Keys, MVP Andy Warren shows us how to set constraints between two tables.
Cannot generate SSPI context…
Out of all the problems you can have with SQL Server troubleshooting connectivity issues can be the most challenging. When you factor in the complexities of Active Directory and SQL Server’s interaction with it fixing SSPI errors can be down right baffling...
Checksum Problems, Choosing the Correct Recovery Model and More
Paul S. Randal answers your SQL questions: How can I tell when there’s a checksum problem without waiting until the monthly maintenance plan? Is it true that using a GUID as the clustered index key can lead to performance issues with indexes? How can I choose the correct recovery model? And more!
Creating a table with horizontal partitioning in SQL Server
During the planning phase I found out about the new partitioning feature in SQL Server 2005 and later editions of SQL Server. It is a vast topic with several associated operations and configurations involved. In this tip I will share what I learned about partitioning, show an example to implement horizontal table partitioning along with a comprehensive list of related benefits and considerations.
Estimating Priorities
Steve Jones is more willing to ask for changes in software than the real world. Is that a good thing or not? Read on to find out.
Estimating Priorities
Steve Jones is more willing to ask for changes in software than the real world. Is that a good thing or not? Read on to find out.
Estimating Priorities
Steve Jones is more willing to ask for changes in software than the real world. Is that a good thing or not? Read on to find out.
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
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Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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