With our four dedicated development teams, weekly updates and a commitment to listening to your feedback, SQL Monitor keeps getting better and better! If you haven't looked at it for a while, you might just be pleasantly surprised with how far it has come and how it can help your team work smarter. Take a look at the key features - and benefits - we've added since 2018 in this interactive infographic.
While analyzing SQL Server's network protocol, I came across a weird fact: when a database client logs in using SQL Server authentication (as opposed to Windows authentication), it has to send the user's password to the server, in blatant violation of common security guidelines. At first, I couldn't believe it; SQL Server generally does an […]
Many developers have made mistakes that in test and development environments that customers notice. Using DevOps should help reduce these issues.
Azure SQL Database has been around for over ten years and is constantly evolving with new capabilities and options. Dennes Torres explains 8 features and best practices of Azure SQL Database.
SQLBits is back online and in-person from March 8-12 and this year they’re taking us all to the Arcade! Register to get access to our exclusive pre-con and conference sessions run by Grant Fritchey, Kathi Kellenberger, and Steve Jones, as they talk database. And get a 10% discount code when you register using REDGATE274.
In some ways the world changes a lot; in others, it's very much the same. Steve notes that often change brings opportunities, if you can adapt.
Continuous Compliance Automation aims strike a balance between baking compliance requirements into daily operations, and business demands for speed and agility. Redgate's Security Lead, will be joined by a panel of peers to discuss this mindset change and the impact it can have on your organization.
In this article learn about how to use the new diagram view along with a schema view in Power BI to make Power Query online editing easier on report designers.
Becoming overly enthusiastic about a new SQL Server feature can backfire if you don’t do some testing. One example is the table variable introduced with SQL Server 2000. At the time, there was a myth that table variables would always perform better than temp tables with the reasoning that, by definition, variables are stored in […]
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True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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