Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing Azure Data Platform – such as Azure Data Factory – with Power BI, while also introducing new services.
Today Steve asks for the ways in which you use xp_cmdshell in your environment.
In this article, I share how an SQL Server filtered index solved the problem of preventing duplicates for new rows in a table.
In this article, you will learn how a team can start to better manage the scripts they use for their daily work.
Steve notes that we're always better doing things better the first time. That takes some effort.
Data generation is the science and art of providing data for database development work that is as realistic and controllable as possible. The skills of generating realistic data are an essential part of being a database developer. It is important: you need plenty of data of exactly the right type, size and verisimilitude
I was at a customer this week (sorry, can't share who). I spent the day talking about Redgate Monitor and how it can help with query tuning, server management, and estate management. Through the day, the data pros at the company were sharing how they were managing hundreds of servers and several thousand databases. They […]
Setting up High Availability in SQL server has some prerequisites. One of these is that the database servers must be members of the same Windows Server Failover Cluster. In this article I show how to succesfully set up WSFC and activate Cluster Aware Updating
Monitoring and observability are becoming more important in today's 24x7x365 environment for applications. Steve asks what data helps you solve problems today. Tell us what's important to you.
In this article, we look at how to enable a large language model (LLM) to answer questions based on data stored in Azure SQL Database.
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
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The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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