Trigger Happy
This article looks at using triggers to audit and to prevent the performing of unintended actions.
Finding & Fixing Statistics Without Histograms
Men Without Hats were awesome. Statistics without histograms are terrible, but now they're easy to find and fix.
Collecting Data with Elastic Database Jobs in SQL Azure
In this tip we look at how to collect data for Elastic Database Jobs and easily store the data in a central location for analysis and review.
Fifty Different Ways to Enact Data Privacy Laws?
Now that the GDPR has gone into effect, many are wondering what will happen in the United States. California is the first state to enact similar legislation, called the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). In this article, William Brewer explains the history of the law, what it means for companies doing business with California residents, and how it compares to the GDPR.
Free Encryption
Free SQL Server 2000 Encryption for your data!!! Author Michael Coles has put together a tolljit and some XPs that you can use to encrypt your data with the Blowfish algorithm. It is hard to write good applications that encrpyt data and manage the keys and security. This will give you a great headstart on protecting your data.
Normal Data
More and more people are starting to perform data analysis, including DBAs, but they should be aware of what normal means for data.
Get SQL Server Row Count and Space Used with the sp_rows
Check out this stored procedure sp_rows to get a listing of space used and rows counts for your SQL Server database tables.
Single Source of Truth
Andy Warren talks about the single source of truth for information. It could be the database, but that's not always the best choice.
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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