Creating a Database Diagram in SSMS - SQL School Video
In this SQL School video, Brian Knight shows you how to create and use database diagrams in Management Studio.
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
Monitoring Changes in Your Database Using DDL Triggers
Auditing and monitoring activity in your databases is becoming more and more important all the time. New author David Dye brings us a short introduction to using DDL triggers to help.
Configure Windows Firewall for SQL Server Remote Connections
This article describes the process of how to configure the Windows firewall for SQL Server
Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
The Many Benefits of Money…Data Type!
Our initial reason for looking at the money data type can be found within the Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users white paper. In this white paper, we provide extensive examples of the types of precision issues when your SQL relational data source and your Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services cube have different non-matching data types (e.g., if you query one way you get the value 304253.3251, but run the query in another way and you get the value 304253.325100001).
Managerial Relations
Steve Jones talks a bit more about the employee manager relationship in this turbulent times.
XML Workshop XXII - A TSQL RSS Library
RSS feeds are becoming almost required for any type of data publication. SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us the next installment of his XML Workshop series that looks at a series of T-SQL functions to generate the RSS formatted data.
Blogs
Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL...
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
Forums
Seeding a Fabric Warehouse with dbt for Visual Studio Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Seeding a Fabric Warehouse with dbt for Visual Studio Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Doing the Little Things
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Question of the Day
Historical Data Tracking
If I want to track historical data values, which mechanism should I use?
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