Prometheus
The myth of Prometheus has some relevance to technology workers. How? Read what Steve Jones thinks.
Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 5
This fifth installment of the “Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell” series illustrates how to access SQL Server instance properties and SQL Server configuration details using Windows PowerShell.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
The Baker's Dozen: 13 Tips for SQL Server 2008 and SSRS 2008
SQL Server 2008 gets new developer features, and SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services gets a facelift and new architecture that no longer requires Internet Information Services.
DLP Technology
Steve Jones isn't talking about his new television, but rather a new technology dealing with data and databases.
The FILESTREAM Data Type in SQL Server 2008
There is a new data type in SQL Server 2008 that might help you deal with all those music, image, and other media files in SQL Server. FILESTREAM allows you to store these files in the file system, but access them from within SQL Server. New author Deepa Gheewala brings us a look at setting a table for FILESTREAM.
Changing the default SQL Server backup folder
Is it possible to change the default directory for backups, so it does not need to be specified each time I run a backup?
Faking Arrays in Transact SQL
It is a simple routine that we all need to use occasionally; parsing a delimited list of strings in TSQL. In a perfect relational world, it isn't necessary, but real-world data often comes in a form that requires one of the surprising variety of routines that Anith Sen describes, along with sage advice about their use.
Blogs
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...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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