Planning for SAP HANA Deployments in Public Cloud Environments
Learn about the factors that should be taken into account if you are considering hosting SAP HANA in a public cloud.
Recreating Databases from Scratch with SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor starts with the basics how to rebuild a set of development database from scratch, using SQL Change Automation, and then demonstrates how to check for any active sessions before rebuilding, import test data using BCP, and secure passwords if connecting to the target with SQL Server credentials.
A simple trick for “Block Comment” syntax in SSMS
Make your comment blocks much more useful, in a surprising number of ways
Contracting for Work
The decision to work for yourself instead of full time for an organization can be a hard one.
Establishing a DevOps Organisation
DevOps might sound intimidating if your organisation has not yet begun on its DevOps journey. In this article, Rahul Varshneya explains some of the benefits and reviews the stages all DevOps organisations go through to achieve it.
Using the SQL Compare command line with Argfiles
Phil Factor demonstrates how using XML argfiles to pass parameters to SQL Compare cuts out a lot of the tedious scripting involved in modifying a database schema comparison and deployment process, as required for each target database.
Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
Pattern Recognition via Principal Components Analysis
We'll look at using principal components analysis to help visualise your data and detect underlying structure or patterns.
Taking Notes – Paper or Keyboard?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. When you need to take notes, how do you do it? Have you thought about it and experimented? Read on to see what Andy Warren does.
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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