Receive SQL Server Alerts through Slack
In this tip we look at how we can use Python and SQL Server 2017 to send alerts from SQL Server to Slack messaging service.
Common Mistakes
This week Steve Jones is wondering what the common mistakes that T-SQL developers make are.
SQL Server Restart or Cluster Failover Notification
How to create an automatic SQL restart or failover notification.
Demoing Latch Waits with Stupid Tricks
Stuffing table variables with hard-coded values to demonstrate concurrency.
In-Memory OLTP – Common Workload Patterns and Migration Considerations
In-Memory OLTP is a high performance, memory-optimized engine integrated into SQL Server 2014 and designed for modern hardware trends. In-Memory OLTP allows users to move data into memory resident tables while keeping other data in traditional, disk-based table structures. For performance critical workloads, users can also migrate Transact-SQL code to natively compiled stored procedures. This can provide additional performance gains. This paper aims to help readers understand some of the common architectural patterns where In-Memory OLTP has provided significant benefits. The paper also discusses considerations for migrating applications to In-Memory OLTP.
Converting Trace to Extended Events
A walkthrough of a conversion of a SQL Trace setup to an Extended Event session.
In-Memory OLTP – SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Internals Overview
In-Memory OLTP (project “Hekaton”) is a new database engine component, fully integrated into SQL Server. It is optimized for OLTP workloads accessing memory resident data. In-Memory OLTP allows OLTP workloads to achieve significant improvements in performance, and reduction in processing time. Tables can be declared as ‘memory optimized’ to enable In-Memory OLTP’s capabilities. Memory-optimized tables are fully transactional and can be accessed using Transact-SQL. Transact-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code for further performance improvements on memory-optimized tables. The engine is designed for high concurrency and blocking is minimal.
Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
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In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
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EightKB 2026
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Forums
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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