Quick Survey: PostgreSQL in Your Organization
Do you use PostgreSQL in your organization? Are you thinking about using it? Take our short survey and tell us about what you think about it.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Time Since Last Restore
If your log restores aren't happening when they’re meant to, you want to know about it. You’ll be relying on restoring from logs should anything happen to your databases, and if you can’t restore to a certain point in time, you risk losing valuable data.
New toys in SQL Server 2012
In this article we are going to look two new enhancements: the Insert snippet menu option and the surround with option.
On the importance of a complete break
If you’re the type who habitually checks work email and thinks about work while on holiday, here’s Gail Shaw's challenge for next time: don’t.
Using the Script Task in SSIS to Process Data Files When They Arrive
Learn how you can process data files with SSIS as soon as they arrive using the Script Task.
More Text Analysis with the SSIS Term Lookup Component
As mentioned before, we will use the same use case in this tip as used with the Term Extraction component, which is an archive of all my tweets I've downloaded from Twitter. Using this archive and the Term Extraction transformation I found out which topics I particularly tweeted about in the past years or which persons I mentioned the most.
Data Mining Introduction Part 2
This is a continuation of first article about Data Mining. We will talk about decision trees.
Data Mining Introduction Part 2
This is a continuation of first article about Data Mining. We will talk about decision trees.
Hooks
Building hooks from your software into enterprise monitoring systems is prudent, and might save you from a few late night phone calls.
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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