MTTD

Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.

Create Document Templates in a SQL Server Database Table

Learn how to create document templates in a database table and use SQL to replace specific keywords in the templates for content customization.

Level up your learning in 2024 with PASS Data Community Summit

Did you know that the general program for PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8) was recently unveiled? This year's lineup includes over 150 different sessions being delivered by over 140 speakers!

This year's program also includes 16 incredible full day pre-cons, taking place on November 4 and 5, plus 6 different learning pathways to choose from. Join PASS Summit on-site for a whole week of connecting, sharing and learning with industry experts.

What Sport Would You Play?

We’re halfway through the Olympics, with all the usual drama – highs, lows, special interest stories - and even a surprise hero in Yusuf Dikec at the 10-meter air pistol (the memes have been strong with this one). As I was talking with my children this week, one of them asked, “So dad, what sport […]

Displaying Sorted Hierarchies (SQL Spackle)

Learn how you can query a hierarchy of data and also return the results in an ordered fashion. A handy T-SQL skill that you will use over and over again.

Responding to a Disaster

A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.

Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal Versions

In this part 2 we discuss what kind of aggregates can be obtained from a temporal database and how to express these aggregations in the SQL language.

Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape - New York

Join Redgate at the last Redgate Summit event of the year! This series of events is hosted across the globe for data professionals who want to improve their skills and knowledge about Database DevOps, learn about topics surrounding the Cloud, AI, and working across multiple databases.

SQL Server 2012 Always On Groups and FCIs Part 2

This is Part 2 of a series on Always On and FCI integration in SQL Server. In this article we will learn how to add the iSCSI disk storage to our SQL Server nodes and build the cluster.

SQL Server 2012 Always On Groups and FCIs Part 3

Part 3 of the AO and FCI integration series. This article gets SQL Server configured on the nodes and ready for work.