The Curse of Cursor Options
Books Online says the FAST_FORWARD option has "performance optimizations enabled," but they didn't say if they were good. It turns out they're not.
2018-11-30
3,017 reads
Articles
T-SQL Decommenter Part IV
Examination of the comprehensive test suite for the T-SQL Decommenter, along with explanation of the modifications made to produce the production version.
2018-11-29
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Meeting Preparation for SQL Server Projects
Learn how to prepare for technical meetings including knowing your environment, being calm, business values, solution focus and more.
2018-11-29
2,515 reads
SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are two different approaches, with their own advantages and limitations, for making Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL Server) available and maintaining MS SQL Server databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2018-11-28
2,382 reads
Redgate acknowledged as a representative vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking
Data masking really has come of age. Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking has just been published and predicts that the global enterprise use of data masking (DM) or similar de-identification techniques will rise to 40%, an increase from 15% in 2017. And Redgate is acknowledged in the Guide as a representative vendor for Data Masking.
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-10-30)
4,920 reads
SQL Server Auditing for HIPAA and SOX – Part 4
Regulations may require that you audit exactly who does what in your databases. Robert Sheldon explains how SQL Server can help you meet those requirements with its built-in auditing capabilities.
2018-11-27
2,290 reads
Data Migration Assistant tool for Azure SQL DB/Azure VM Assessment
Data Migration Assistant (DMA) to Check for SQL Server Compatibility Issues and Perform assessment when Migrating to Azure SQL Database or to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual machine.
2018-11-26
1,743 reads
Monitoring Azure Health Status Using Azure Portal - Part 1
In this tip we look at how you can monitor Azure health to know if there are any issues that may interupt your services running on Azure.
2018-11-26
1,932 reads
Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 3
Acknowledging fundamental design flaws lead to a more flexible, maintainable phonetic framework
2018-11-23 (first published: 2015-08-27)
3,785 reads
How Check Constraints MIGHT Improve Your Queries and Missing Index Requests
In theory, you get better execution plans when SQL Server understands the contents of your tables. In practice, well, it's hit or miss.
2018-11-23
3,977 reads
Blogs
Who Are You Doing It For?
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But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
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I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try...
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