“Done in 7 minutes” -SQL Server 2019 Install
This blog comes to you from the home office after three days of caring for my sick six-year-old son. Yay for stomach bugs… Have you ever needed to install...
2022-09-20
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Blog Posts
Conversion Precedence
Recently I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit datatype conversions. In it I ran this code: With the ... Continue reading
2022-09-20
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Daily Coping 20 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find a caring, calming phrase to use when you feel low. Life is mostly good, but there are times I feel down, depressed, low,...
2022-09-20
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Meetings Are Work Too
So Many Meetings I’ve said it. We’ve all said it.
I can’t get any work done today, I’ve got so many meetings.
I need to be reminded on occasion that for...
2022-09-20
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Daily Coping 19 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to remember if you’re busy, allow yourself to pause and take a break. I’m in the UK today, and at the Redgate...
2022-09-19
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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Mental Health Bullet Journal – Collect Data to Help Your Mental Health
Purpose This blog and bullet journal was specially created to help me with my tendency to have suicidal ideation, depressive, and manic episodes related to
The post Mental Health Bullet...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-06)
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Unexpected Blocking during the Indexed View Creation
The problem
There was a need to make changes to a table with an Indexed View. Since Indexed Views must be created with SCHEMABINDING, the View must be dropped and...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Comment might be free, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen
I have turned off comments on this site. All existing comments have been removed. Even the nice ones from awesome people, and the helpful ones, and the ones answering...
2022-09-16
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Daily Coping 16 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to aim to be good enough, rather than perfect. I find that many of us that work in technology want a solution...
2022-09-16
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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