Budget for Training
Work on your professional development plan in 2014. Steve Jones has a little advice for you.
Fighting Tooth and Nail for Performance
You need a SQL Server-based application that will work with huge amounts of data and must perform calculations of startling complexity. How far will you go to deliver the required performance?
Exporting CLR Assemblies from SQL Server back to .dll files
You have imported an assembly into a SQL Server database to use the CLR functions and stored procedures it contains. However later, you lost the original .dll file and you would like to create the .dll file again from what's in the database. In this tip, we look at how you can recreate the .dll file.
SQL Saturday #271 - Albuquerque, NM
SQL Saturday is coming to Albuquerque on January 25, 2014. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. This SQL Saturday also features 2 paid-for preconference sessions presented by Denny Cherry and William E. Pearson III.
Survey: About your SQL Server Database Releases
Red Gate are looking for participants in a short short survey on SQL Server database releases. At the end you will be given a chance to enter an e-mail address to win a $50 Amazon gift certificate.
Breaking Down Barriers
Steve Jones requests today that DBAs learn to work with developers and make us all more efficient. He asks for your ideas about how we might go about doing this.
How to receive Deadlock information automatically via email
Receive Deadlock info from the SQL Error Log every time a deadlock occurs.
Keeping Track of your SQL Servers with a DBA Configuration Repository
SQL Server DBAs are often responsible for managing large number of database instances. This article talks about the concept of a Configuration Repository where DBAs can manage all the information related to their SQL Servers
Free eBook: 45 Database Performance Tips for Developers
As a developer, if you need to go into the database and write queries, design tables, or determine the configuration of your SQL Server Systems, these tips should help make sure you're not unnecessarily sacrificing database performance. This eBook has 45 easy tips to improve the performance of your indexes and T-SQL queries, and hunt down problems within ORM tools and database design.
Blogs
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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