A New Word: Waldosia
waldosia– n. a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your...
2025-03-07
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The Voice of the DBA
A Couple Quick GENERATE_SERIES Tests
I had someone reach out about generate_series() recently, saying they hadn’t realized this was a new feature in SQL Server 2022. They were wondering if it was better than...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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What is Deferred Name Resolution?
One interesting concept in SQL Server is Deferred Name Resolution. This is something many developers struggle with understanding how this works and where it works. In the Microsoft docs,...
2025-03-10 (first published: 2025-03-03)
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Book Review: A Radical Enterprise
I grabbed this book over the 2024 holiday season as it was on sale and recommended by the DevOps practitioners over at ITRevolution. A Radical Enterprise looks at a...
2025-03-14 (first published: 2025-02-28)
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Advice I Like: Investing and Growing Rich
Investing small amounts of money over a long time works miracles, but no one wants to get rich slow. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice,...
2025-02-28
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The London Redgate Summit
In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate...
2025-02-28
5 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #183: Improving Permission Management
This is my (late) answer to my own invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #183. I was very busy a few weeks ago when the invite when out (glad it was...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-26)
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Monday Monitor Tips: VLF Alerts
A recent change made to Redgate Monitor to add a new alert for VLF count. This post looks at the change. This is part of a series of posts...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-24)
285 reads
A New Word: Tangency
tangency– n. a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were...
2025-02-21
8 reads
Making a PostgreSQL Backup in a Container
I needed to back up a PostgreSQL database as a part of the repro for an issue I had. I hadn’t ever made a backup of PostgreSQL, so this...
2025-02-19
75 reads
Blogs
Focus on Core Skills
By Brian Kelley
Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have...
A New Word: Zverism
By Steve Jones
zverism – n. the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in...
SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget
By Kevin3NF
The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...
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Move Files SSIS Task
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Migrating mission critical database from SQL on Prem to Azure SQL
We are migrating our environments to Azure, it will be a mix of SQL...
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The Backup Space Needed
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