Branching in Git with SQL Database Projects
Learn how to use Git with SQL Server Data Tools to allow branching for development and how to merge development changes.
How Important is a Conference?
Is going to a conference valuable for you? Your employer? Today Steve asks you to think about what might be important.
Computed Column Performance in SQL Server
Computed columns may be the cause of hard to track down performance issues. In this article, Robert Sheldon reviews the issues and some ways to get around them.
Create AT&T Network Hierarchy Diagrams using SQL Server Data
Diagrammatic support for large, complex hierarchical data structures in SQL Server.
What's the Lunch Factor?
DevOps is about being effective and getting work out to customers. Today Steve notes that the lunch factor might help you reexamine your software development process.
Auto Scaling Azure SQL DB using Automation runbooks
Learn how to auto scale an Azure SQL Database with Azure runbooks and using an existing runbook from the runbooks gallery.
Welcome to Redgate Deploy and Cross-platform Database DevOps
Until now, organizations wanting to introduce database DevOps have had to rely on – and purchase – different tools and solutions for different databases. A new cross-platform database DevOps solution, Redgate Deploy, changes the rules. Find out why in this latest blog post.
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How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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