Analyzing Breached Data
After a recent data breach, Steve read about an analysis of the data. He has a few thoughts on the process that Troy Hunt went through to dig into the data.
Recover a Database from Suspect Mode Step by Step
Learn how you can recover a database that is in suspect mode.
What Do You Drop?
Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
10 tips for Test Data Management success
What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.
Index cleanup : Harder than it looks
I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes.
Prevent SQL Injection
SQL Injection continues to be a problem and Steve has a few thoughts today on how to reduce your vulnerabilities.
Introducing PASS Summit Charitable Organization Scholarship
To help mark Redgate’s 25th Birthday, the company has launched a new initiative to foster knowledge and skills in the data industry.
SSIS in One Hour: Hands-On Tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to enable ETL developers to obtain practical knowledge to exploit SSIS in transforming and combining data through hands-on exploration to be ready for real-world challenges in managing information.
A Checklist for Learning
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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A Full Shutdown
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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