Killing FTS

Steve wonders today if the Full-Text Search system in SQL Server is due for a replacement, perhaps with other technologies.

Watch the State of SQL Server Monitoring tomorrow

Tomorrow Redgate is running a webinar on the State of SQL Server Monitoring with Grant, Chris Yates, Annette Allen, and Tony Maddonna. You can register now and attend on...

Microsoft, Think DevOps First

Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.

SQLServerCentral–Fixing the Time Zone

One of the bugs features of the bbPress forum software is that all posts were shown in a time zone, which for us was a default of UTC. Not...

Practice Those Scripts

A database script caused a large outage for Salesforce. Steve wonders if you have ideas on how to prevent this type of issue in your environment.

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The Data Platform is Important

I didn’t attend the //build/ conference this year and am slightly disappointed. Only slightly, since I was in these cities in May already and didn’t need another trip: London,...

Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola

One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s...

Technology Flows Downstream

The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.

An Alert Philosophy

Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]