A monitoring tool must provide us with an understanding of the often-complex performance patterns that databases exhibit when under load, so that we can predict how they will cope with expansion or increase in scale. It must also helps us spot the symptoms of stress and act before they become problems that affect the service, and understand better what was happening within a database when an intermittent problem started.
Most of us work with the time in a variety of ways in our applications. Temporal tables use the time on the server,but Steve notes today that we might want to capture other types of time.
A stored procedure from longtime community member Lowell Izaguirre, returns the CREATE TABLE definition for any table, including PK, UQ, Identity, FK, Defaults, and more.
GDPR enforcement began in May of 2018, but if you are doing business in the US, you may not think it applies to you. Grant Fritchey explains why you might be wrong about that and why you need to act now.
Phil Factor shows how to automatically apply T-SQL modification scripts during image and clone creation. Using this technique you can, for example, apply data masking to all clones, or customize an individual clone to work on a special variant or branch version, or set up instance level objects like Agent jobs or linked servers.
Someone tried to build a database engine from scratch. While not something Steve wants to do, it's an interesting exercise.
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All it really means is, “Click Execute again, and you will be fine.”
Building software for the cloud often requires some changes. This week Steve wonders how many of you are making the effort.
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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