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.
DevOps falling short?
Organizations are looking for help with their DevOps implementation, including Redgate tools, knowing where they want to go with their production and deployment but not sure where to start. Clear Measure have designed a 30-point DevOps Inspection & Report to provide you with the feedback and guidance you need to take your software development and deployment to another level. Request your inspection now.
Inventory SQL Server Agent Jobs for all Instances with PowerShell
In this tip we look at a PowerShell script you can use to gather information about all SQL Server Agent jobs on all SQL Server instances in your environment for quick reporting and analysis.
Fixing MLS Python Services to Load the Runtime
Recently I went to work on a SQL Server 2017 instance and couldn't get the Python runtime to load. I'd keep getting this error: A strange error for me to see, and one that didn't quite make sense. How can the runtime not launch? However, restarting the instance still resulted in this error: Msg 39021, […]
Have a Think
It's easy for most of us to get caught up in work and not stop to think about the larger picture, or the longer term. Steve Jones thinks you should make time for both of these.
SQL and Scope
Understanding scoping rules is a basic skill for developers. In this article, Joe Celko gives a bit of the history of scoping in early programming languages and shows how scoping applies to SQL queries as well.
Where SQL Server monitoring fits into your tech stack
This article explains the basic components of a tech stack, and the decisions and requirements that affect how and where monitoring tools generally, and a specialist SQL Server monitoring tool like SQL Monitor, in particular, fit into your stack.
Databases in Azure… Where to begin? Create a Database and log in!
Ready to create your first Database in Azure. Here are the step by step instructions with plenty of definitions and terms.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
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I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
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A New Word: Attriage
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attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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