How Do I Spot Identity Columns That Are About to Max Out?
Every so often, usually in the middle of the night or on a holiday weekend, an identity column will hit...
2010-10-05
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Adventures in SQL
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index?
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index? Yes. Really, I’m not kidding. Here, I’ll show you how.
First, let me...
2010-09-27
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A Little Help with Azure Please
Not long ago Microsoft announced a new product called Azure AKA “SQL Server in the Cloud”. I have to say...
2010-09-23
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What Did that Geek Just Say?
Working in a technical field has it’s ups and downs. One of the more common annoyances I run into is...
2010-09-21
325 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
6 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
4 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...
2010-09-14
844 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
34 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
5 reads
Quote of the Day
I do not usually post a quote of the day but since this is my own quote I decided to...
2010-09-13
356 reads
Blogs
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...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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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