Recharged on the 4th of July
After a week of vacation, Steve Jones feels recharged and ready to head back to work. Today we celebrate the holiday with a blooper reel.
2009-07-06
45 reads
Editorial
The Independence Day Ruckus
Steve is away this Fourth of July, so we asked Brian Donahue, head of the Red Gate product support team, and an American "exiled" in the UK, to reflect on what Independence Day means to him.
2009-07-03
64 reads
Stress
Developers and DBAs both tend to lead stressful lives. Occasionally, things don't go to plan, and this stress can then build to pretty intolerable levels. Without adaptive methods of dealing with stress, things can go very wrong...
2009-07-02
266 reads
What is the Best Way to Test SQL?
Over the past five or so years, encouraging progress has been made with regard to testing .NET application code...I wish I could say that the same progress had been made with testing SQL.
2009-07-01
537 reads
Documenting Database Code: Structured Headers
When you're doing any database development work, it won't be long before you need to seriously consider the documentation of your routines. Should we, as a community, propose a common standard for T-SQL headers, and the information that should go into them?
2009-06-30
471 reads
What's Your Ideal DBA Job?
Brad engages in a little Summer daydreaming, and wonders what the Ideal DBA job would look like...
2009-06-29
351 reads
Disaster Recovery - An Afterthought?
Disaster Recovery is always ranked by DBAs and managers as one of the most important things to have set up. Yet many people working with databases don't spend time on this. Steve Jones has a few comments from the news this week.
2009-06-29
411 reads
Making Demands
Imagine you are invited to speak somewhere and you have a bit of power. Have some fun with this Friday's poll and let us know what you'd demand.
2009-06-26
439 reads
Making Demands
Imagine you are invited to speak somewhere and you have a bit of power. Have some fun with this Friday's poll and let us know what you'd demand.
2009-06-26
110 reads
Trusting Online
How do you earn trust online? How do you decide who to trust? Steve Jones comments a bit about this this works in the digital world.
2009-06-25
85 reads
Blogs
Deploy a Dockerized Python TODO App to Azure Container Apps Using Pulumi and Azure Key Vault
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SQL Server Wait Stats
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FabCon 2025 Recap
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Forums
Edition features
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The Subtle Differences Between COALESCE and ISNULL
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SQL Server Collations
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SQL Server Collations
At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?
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