A Complex Database Project in Visual Studio SSDT
One Way to Handle a Very Complex Database Project with Several Databases and Cross References
Database Source Control Workshop - London, UK
Redgate's workshops are coming to London on July 8, 2015. In this workshop, you'll learn how to source control your database, deploy your databases from source control, and monitor and track database changes across development, testing, and production environments. Register while space is available.
Testing SQL Server Backup Performance with Trace Flag 3042
Starting with SQL Server 2008 a new feature which allowed us to create compressed backup files by pre-allocating space. This tip will look at the performance impacts of disabling pre-allocation of space using the 3042 SQL Server trace flag.
Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
Testing Simple Calculations and UDFs with tSQLt
This article will give you a basic look at how you can test your user defined functions with the tSQLt framework.
Documenting your SQL Server Database
One of the shocks that a developer can get when starting to program in T-SQL is that there is no simple way of generating documentation for routines, structures and interfaces, in the way that Javadocs or Doxygen provides. To embed the documentation in the source is so obvious and easy that it is a wrench to be without this facility. Phil Factor suggests a solution.
SQL Saturday #407 - Vancouver
SQL Saturday is coming to Vancouver, British Columbia on June 27 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Register while space is available.
Searching for Plans
Would you want a query optimizer that searches for the best plan for your code? Steve Jones thinks this might not be a bad idea.
Automated Database Deployment Workshop: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Redgate's DLM Workshops are coming to Belfast, NI on June 26, 2015. Learn how to: deploy databases using Redgate's DLM tools, assess the different requirements of production and non-production deployments, and handle database administration tasks, such as backups and security, for automated deployment. Register while space is available.
Automating Day-to-Day PowerShell Admin Tasks - Jobs and Workflow
If you are aiming to optimise the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you will soon want to run scripts in parallel to save time. PowerShell does not demand that you run jobs one after the other; It has the means to launch actions whenever you wish and to obtain the results when you want them.
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!
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Community Events!
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?
See possible answers