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SQL Server Database RESTORE WITH MOVE or not WITH MOVE
Mike Eastland frequently restores production databases to various development servers. The drive layouts between the servers are almost never the same. He is constantly shuffling files on his development servers due to space constraints, which in turn breaks the automated restore scripts because the MOVE clauses are invalidated. Does he have to use the MOVE clause every time he does a restore?
Competition or Cooperation
Would you rather work with people, or compete with them? Steve Jones has comments on the Microsoft Stack Ranking system that seems to encourage the latter.
Getting Started with Microsoft Power Query for Excel
Power Query, provided as part of Microsoft Power BI self-service solution, is an Excel add-in that can be used for data discovery, reshaping the data and combining data coming from different sources. Power Query is one of Excel add-ins. Read on to learn how to install and get started using it.
Helping Streamline Log Shipping Failovers
Using Log Shipping? Looking for a more automated way to fail over during a disaster? Read on...
Lessons Learned from Six Years of Agile Database Development
Alex Kuznetsov describes the agile principles, techniques and tools that allowed his development team to make frequent database refactoring a reality, without disrupting users. He explains how this allowed his team to apply an iterative, evolutionary approach to the design and development of their databases, as well as applications.
SQL Monitor Metric: Processes in a runnable state (scheduler query)
Use this script in SQL Monitor to determine the general load on the operating system you can get a count of the processes that are in a runnable state. This value will go up and down as various systems run on the operating system. It’s only a measure of load on the system and won’t indicate the cause of problems, but will show you pressure on the system.
Going over their heads: IT Decisions
Phil factor points out that Marketing people who appeal directly to enterprise CIOs are generally wasting their time, and are better off convincing IT people in general.
High-Performance Transact-SQL with Window Functions
Window functions are more intuitive and simpler in many cases than alternative SQL methods.
Is Your Data Relational?
An RDBMS is a good fit for many database problems, perhaps as Steve Jones thinks, the best fit for most. However NoSQL systems have a place, we're just not sure where.
Blogs
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At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
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How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
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Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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