SQL Server Wait Types Library – UPGRADED!
Have you heard of SQLskills? Have you heard of the waits library? If not then where have you been hiding?...
2017-05-11
363 reads
All About SQL
Extended Events – I am dangerous (sometimes)
I did a dangerous thing, and I want to make sure that YOU DO NOT do the same. I was...
2017-05-09
347 reads
SQL Server Recovering Data via a Hex Editor
I got bored (really bored) one weekend I decided to challenge myself. I had corruption within a specific table (localised...
2017-05-08
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Comparing Plans via Query Store
A small but nice little feature I have been using recently can be found within Query Store. Let’s say you...
2017-05-04
314 reads
Adaptive Query Processing – Interleaved Execution
A quick blog post to start the day, If you remember a few months ago I blogged about SQL Server...
2017-05-02
478 reads
SQLBits Review
I promised a recap/review on my first SQLBits event so I finally got around to it, hopefully you will find...
2017-04-26
497 reads
Redgate: SQL Search
I seriously finding searching for objects within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) via object explorer slow, manual and fiddly especially...
2017-04-25
445 reads
I Escaped from a SQL Server Service Pack Nightmare
I hope you take backups or have a recovery plan in place before a SQL Server service pack upgrade, if...
2017-04-24
353 reads
Getting intimate with Brent Ozar (The First Responder Kit)
Imagine this scenario, you are a database professional at your place of business and you look after a mountain of SQL...
2017-04-12
512 reads
Microsoft Data Platform is changing – so am I
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by Koen Verbeeck (http://sqlkover.com/t-sql-tuesday-89-invitation-the-times-they-are-a-changing/), a blog post about how we feel about the ever...
2017-04-11
316 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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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