The Best Way to Protect Sensitive Data
Steve has a thought on the best way to protect sensitive data.
What is a Relational Database Management System
This article covers the relational database system evolution and covers terms used in relational models such as relation, tuple, attribute, domain, schemas, and key.
A Need for Monitoring without Administration
A recent hack through a network monitoring system is scary, but Steve thinks that we ought to not require these systems to have privileged access.
Stairway to U-SQL Level 18: Populating a Data Lake with PowerShell
Learn how PowerShell can be used to manage files and folders in your Data Lake.
DBA in training: Know your server’s limits
Comparing current performance to baselines helps DBAs know when there’s a problem. In this article, Pamela Mooney describes how to measure the physical resources drive space, latency, memory, and CPU.
Maintaining a Database Build Script with SQL Compare
Phil Factor explores a lesser-known capability of SQL Compare, which is to help you maintain a 'traditional', well-documented, single file build script, for creating the current version of the database during development.
Spoofing Data Convincingly: Text Data
Learn how to generate some convincing data for your development databases.
The Devil is in the Details
The story of an engineer solving a problem is a good one that shows technical skills and a passion for the work.
Import Excel Data into SQL Server with PowerShell
In this article we look at PowerShell code you can use to import Excel data into SQL Server.
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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...
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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