Killing FTS
Steve wonders today if the Full-Text Search system in SQL Server is due for a replacement, perhaps with other technologies.
Database provisioning and containers – can you help?
If you work with SQL Server, Redgate would love to talk to you about how you’re using (or thinking of using) containers, how you see databases fitting into your workflows involving them, and any challenges you’ve hit so far.
Free Webinar: The State of SQL Server Monitoring 2019
With a line up like this, it's a webinar not to be missed! Join Grant Fritchey, Chris Yates, Annette Allen, and Tony Maddonna on Tuesday June 25th as they discuss the key findings of Redgate’s 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring survey.
The BI Journey: The Journey Begins
Gogula Aryalingam continues telling the story of the BI solution created by a business analyst intern. In this article, after the initial success, plans are made to sustain and grow the project.
Microsoft, Think DevOps First
Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in SQL2016
Implementing Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in existing SQL Server instances with AlwaysON
Practice Those Scripts
A database script caused a large outage for Salesforce. Steve wonders if you have ideas on how to prevent this type of issue in your environment.
What’s Better, CTEs or Temp Tables?
Brent get's asked this question a lot, so here he has set up an example with the Stack Overflow database. His query’s goal is to find the top 5 Locations, and list the users who live in those top 5 Locations, alphabetized by their DisplayName.
Technology Flows Downstream
The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.
Using VMware VMDKs for SQL Server Database Cloning
Learn how you can clone a database with a VMDK virtual disk to store your data.
Blogs
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...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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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