Forcing SQL Agent Jobs to Fail When Remote Procedures Timeout
Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
Install Cumulative Updates
This week Steve Jones recommends installing Cumulative Updates. If you can test them.
Getting started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an obvious first-step towards migrating on-premise organisational data to the cloud. So how do you get started with it? Robert Sheldon provides a simple guide that should provide you with sufficient of the the basics you need to get a SQL Data Warehouse database up and running.
Create stunning visualizations with Power View in 20 minutes or less!
Learn about Microsoft’s latest end-user BI reporting tool, Power View, and create animated graphs that impress your boss!
Write for SQLServerCentral - Bonus for Azure
We're always looking for articles, but here are a few ones that I'd like to see written up.
Questions About PowerShell Basics That You Were Too Shy To Ask
Developers who are already familiar with application languages will be baffled by different aspects of PowerShell to the beginner to programming. Laerte recalls his initial struggles with PowerShell and answers those questions he wished he'd found quick answers to.
Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Jobs
In this article, Marcin Policht describes the basic functionality and implementation steps for Azure SQL Database's Elastic Database jobs.
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
Data Mining Part 38: Text Mining - The term lookup
In this new article, we will show how to use the SSIS term lookup transformation tool.
Blogs
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...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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