The end of a year is a time for reflection, but it’s also a time for running full-pelt at the new year with some ill-thought-out predictions under ones belt. It’s with this in mind that I fire up my 100%-accurate Criswell-Brand crystal ball, and peer into next year’s world of technology.
The trace flag 8649 is incredibly useful. Alas, the flag is undocumented, unknown, and its full impact difficult to understand. Adam Machanic presents an alternative which you might find useful.
Today Steve Jones has a poll that asks about the visualizations or infographics that you find to be most effective.
Voting is open for the Tribal Awards finalists. Choose which community warriors you think went above and beyond the call of duty with their blog, presentation, advice, user group, and more.
This article details how to reinitialise a Log Shipping scenario from a primary differential backup
Brady Upton explains how to create a quick data warehouse to store all the data in a separate table so that it doesn’t get groomed.
Quick and efficent way to change SQL service startup parameters for 1000 instances!
It can be a challenge for some people to get away from work. Today Steve Jones gives you some of his advice.
Every database developer uses keys, but without always understanding all the ramifications. They come with few hard and fast rules, but if you get them right from the start with a database design, the whole process of database development is simpler, and the result is likely to perform better. We asked Phil for advice, little knowing that the explanation might take a while.
There can be a lot more value when pieces of data are put together than when they exist separately. Steve Jones comments on a few ways people are repackaging information in the modern world.
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We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC....
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL...
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At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
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If I want to track historical data values, which mechanism should I use?
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