What do you consider important when performance testing?
What data specific considerations do you make when preparing for performance testing?
The Road To Hell - new article from the DBA Team
Joe Celko & Chris Date guest as the sinister Relational Police in this new DBA Team adventure. Can the DBA Team save another doomed database? Find out.
Getting Started with Hashing in SQL Server
Encryption brings data into a state which cannot be interpreted by anyone who does not have access to the decryption key, password, or certificates. Hashing brings a string of characters of arbitrary size into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key. Here's how to get started using it.
Getting It Right First Time. Almost?
Mistakes happen but how can we minimize them and deal with them whey they do happen?
Linked Server Tribulations In SQL Server
In this article, Thomas chronicles the difficulties of troubleshooting a linked server set up, with helpful tips and an exposé of a Linked Server UI flaw.
Call for Speakers - SQL Saturday Pittsburgh
SQL Saturday #315 in Pittsburgh (Oct 4th) is looking for speakers - if you've got a SQL topic you want to talk about, submit it and you may get to share with your peers.
How to test what a SQL Server application would do in the past or in the future with date and time differences
For date and time based testing, I use what I like to call "mock-time". The mock-time starts at what ever I set it to, but then advances along with the regular system clock. Andy Novick shows how that would work.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Schema Modified
This metric creates an alert that will be raised when something is added to the schema, or the existing schema is modified.
A DBA at the Opera
In opera, tragedy or absurdity happens because the characters are incapable of standing back, and making a difficult decision. Instead, at every stage, they just drift towards their fate by taking the easy option. Don't let the same fate befall you, as a DBA.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Hours
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I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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