Compare Artificial Intelligence Models Built with T-SQL
This tip looks at using artificial intelligence models with SQL Server to predict outcomes.
Admin Challenges Across Scale and Time
The challenges of large scale administration can be complex, but the more we share, the more we help others learn and better manage systems.
Getting started with SQL Server stored procedures
In this article we look at different examples of creating SQL Server stored procedures.
Introducing SQL Change Automation 4.3
The latest version of SQL Change Automation now integrates with SQL Clone to let you use a snapshot of your database’s schema as a baseline. This simplifies migration development in complex databases, avoiding problems like invalid objects or circular dependencies, and you can verify migration scripts on a copy of the currently released database.
A One-Slide Summary of the Differences Between TDE and Always Encrypted
Read a One-Slide Summary of the Differences Between TDE and Always Encrypted from Brent Ozar.
Redgate Streamed Returns
Our virtual community event is back with a global feel. Featuring speakers including Donovan Brown, Abel Wang, Kendra Little & Damian Brady, we have a full day of live content & networking opportunities, spanning world-wide time zones. So, wherever you are in the world, join us live on Wednesday August 26.
Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
If you own a database with encrypted modules but you don't have a decrypted version, this can be a horror story.
Learn how to get back the code of the encrypted modules using dbatools.
Maximize View of SQL Server Query Plans with Full Screen Option
In this tip we look at how to save an execution plan for future review as well as using the full screen mode to see more of a query plan at one time.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
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Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
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Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
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SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers