CTE in SQL Server Examples
In this article we cover what a Common Table Expression CTE is and how to write a CTE for doing selects, inserts, deletes, updates and more.
The future of Database DevOps
Director at ThoughtWorks Pramod Sadalage explores trends such as rapid digital transformation and an ever-changing tech landscape, that'll change the way we work with databases and DevOps in the next 20 years.
A Computer on Wheels
Tesla is updating their software in a real world, real life DevOps that their customers experience every day. It impresses Steve and tempts him to get one of their cars.
Model Selection and Performance Boosting with k-Fold Cross Validation and XGBoost
This article examines how to split a data set for training and testing and evaluating our model using Python.
Managing Database Documentation during Flyway-based Development
How to create and maintain a 'data dictionary' for your databases, in JSON format, which you can then use to add and update the table descriptions, whenever you build a new version using Flyway.
Oracle Sequences: RAC
Using sequences when scaling up with Oracle RAC presents more issues with contention. In this article, Jonathan Lewis explains how to avoid the problems.
Living Life
It's a holiday weekend in the US this weekend. As such, many of you will be taking a break from work and enjoying time with family, as well as remembering some history in the US. If you're in the rest of the world, hopefully you have a holiday coming up soon you can enjoy. One […]
How much will it cost or save to rebuild that index? (SQL Oolie)
What's the true and permanent cost of lowering the Fill Factor of an index in SQL Server? It's a lot more than many people think. 9 year SQL Server MVP veteran, Jeff Moden, demonstrates how to calculate the extra space that will be used by lowering the Fill Factor and saved by increasing it.
Constraints and declarative referential integrity
Database systems have powerful features built right in that can ensure the integrity of data. In this article, Joe Celko discusses keys and constraints.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Forums
"Click" your SQL Server into an MCP agent, with RBAC and full security
Hi guys and gals, I've created a system that automatically allows you to "generate"...
Demo Tracking Dropped Objects
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Randomly Selecting Columns and Rows from a Table or View
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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