Performance Tuning Using Free Tools
You can do essential performance tuning on your SQL Server databases using a FREE toolkit!
Connecting to PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant
Database professionals often work with more than one database platform. Grant Fritchey explains setting up and connecting to PostgreSQL database.
Did you know SQL Monitor supports Azure databases, too?
SQL Monitor allows you to bring your whole estate into a single monitoring landscape that has a consistent interface, whether you have an all-Azure environment, or, more likely, a mixed database environment. Find out more, here!
BETWEEN the two of us
BETWEEN can be used in a SQL WHERE clause to filter on a range. Joe Celko explains the history of BETWEEN and also could be implemented.
DBAs at work #2: The airline DBA
How different is it working as a DBA at an airline? Find out how your peers work in this series: DBAs at work. This episode features Deborah Thompson, Database Administrator at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline.
Acknowledging Success
Annual awards are a fun thing for Steve, and he hopes more organizations will start doing them.
Introduction to SQL Jobs in Azure Data Studio
Learn how to work with SQL Agent Jobs in Azure Data Studio.
A Flyway Teams Callback Script for Auditing SQL Migrations
Demonstrates a cross-database PowerShell callback script for reporting on and auditing Flyway migrations, telling you which scripts were used to create each version, when they were run, who ran them and more.
Blogs
SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First
By Vinay Thakur
Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how...
Google Moves Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
By Brian Kelley
In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography...
The Book of Redgate: No Politics
By Steve Jones
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this...
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Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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