Distributed workforces have very quickly become the norm. The 2020 State of Database Monitoring survey explores the impact of remote working on estate management and how organisations are responding. You can read the full findings in the free report, here.
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I am old enough to remember when many large corporations implemented chargebacks. Essentially, each internal department was charged for their usage of IT systems, similar to how we are charged in the cloud. It was a mess, and individual departments had to answer for excessive charges. I don't know that any department ever lost service, […]
Microsoft introduced Columnstore with SQL Server 2012 and have improved the feature in every version since then. You may be wondering why they are different than traditional indexes and how they work. In this series, Edward Pollack explains the architecture of Columnstore indexes. In future articles in the series, he will describe best practices for Columnstore.
Database deployments are on the rise, with more organizations releasing weekly or daily. But this does not always result in more value being delivered. Steve Jones advises the steps you can take to unlock the value of frequent releases in this blog.
Most of us use SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to manage our SQL Server instances or to write database code. However, Microsoft does give us database options with Visual Studio, VS Code, and Azure Data Studio. It does seem as though Microsoft would prefer more of us move to ADS, but I'm not sure I'm […]
In this article we look at how to find SQL Server deadlocks using the system health Extended Events session.
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A simple question, and you can vote by leaving a comment for this article. Do you still want me to include the coping tips in the newsletter after June? When the pandemic shut down much of the world in March, our CEO at Redgate Software asked us to think about what we could do to […]
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How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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