EzAdo - Part 1
EzAdo is a very simple api built to exploit some new features of SQL 2016. It combines software, convention, and creativity to get more done in less time.
Who is that masked man anyway?
If you are holding, in your organisation, personal data about real people or commerce, it is wrong, and in many cases illegal to do database development work or testing using your production data. This, of course, probably applies to a minority of database systems, but data breaches caused by attacking backups or copies of production […]
The Sort that Spills to Level 15,000
Paul White shows that SQL Server sometimes produces very misleading information about the impact of sort operations.
JSON Select - Easily query values from JSON
Introducing JSON Select - a new library that makes it easy to pull values out of JSON strings in SQL Server 2005+
Memory/Storage Technology Hierarchy and SQL Server
Glenn Berry discusses the ever-changing landscape of memory/storage technology, and how it relates to SQL Server workloads on Windows servers.
Basic Data Manipulation for Relational Data in R
In this post I will attempt to explore simple commands to manipulate data pulled in from a SQL database into R.
Where Do You Run Your R Scripts?
Executing R scripts can be a heavy load. Today Steve Jones wonders if SQL Server is the best place to execute these.
Getting started with Query Store feature in SQL Server 2016 – Part 3
Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can analyze the data collected by Query Store either with T-SQL scripting or with the graphical user interface in SSMS.
One Million
The number one million has special meaning to many people. And it's a heck of a metric to achieve in a measurement on a database system.
PowerShell Just Enough Administration
A major difficulty for a System Administrator who wishes to provide access for auditors, Helpdesk staff, developers and other IT people is that adminstrator roles give users more access than they need. It is too easy to make mistakes, or to make more changes than those that were signed-off. With JEA, it is possible to create role-based access control (RBAC) endpoints that define precisely what actions you’ll let your users carry out without needing a elevated, privileged administrator credentials, and which log and report all operations.
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,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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