2019-03-04
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Editorial
Schema Security
This week Steve is wondering about the use of schemas for security or other purposes.
2019-03-01
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2020-02-06 (first published: 2019-02-28)
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The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
2019-02-27
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Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
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The Employee Target
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
2019-02-25
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Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
2019-02-25
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A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
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Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
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2019-02-20
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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,...
Forums
Purpose of the Rice Purity Test
The main purpose of the Rice Purity Test is entertainment and self reflection. Many...
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
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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