A discussion on LinkedIn led to this hypothetical “real world” question: Problem statement: I have a SQL Server 2000 database backup that I need to restore to a supported...
2024-07-05 (first published: 2024-06-20)
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I’ve seen the term polyglot persistence floating around Redgate a bit recently in the marketing department. I haven’t really seen this term anywhere, and I wonder if you have....
2024-07-05 (first published: 2024-06-17)
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I recently encountered an issue where an index rebuild set to wait_at_low_priority ended up blocking an asynchronous statistics update.
This interaction led to a large blocking chain where queries were...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-06-16)
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Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2024 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 8th (8th of the 8th…get it? 🙂...
2024-07-03
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After a data migration, we needed to decommission the old Azure SQL DBs, but we wanted to keep a copy in case we needed anything later. Enter exporting an...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-07-02)
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I had a customer that was looking to document a restore that had occurred on one of their systems and didn’t see it. They had concerns about SQL Server...
2024-07-03
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A couple of weeks ago, a developer came to me and wanted to know how to figure out what was causing a deadlock. I honestly didn’t know where to...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-06-14)
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Have you heard the news about the new Power BI Project files? Okay, maybe not news anymore since it was announced over a year ago. Just in case you...
2024-07-02 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are passionate about or use for our jobs. For example, I specialized in Microsoft business intelligence,...
2024-07-02
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I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...
2024-07-01
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By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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