Managing Cross-Database Object References
Phil Factor explains cross database and cross-server references, how to find them in your code, and when it's better to avoid hard-coding these references and use synonyms instead.
2020-11-20
Vendors/3rd-party Products
Win a three-month subscription to Pluralsight
Redgate is giving you the chance to win a three-month subscription to Pluralsight (the technical skills training platform) in this month’s forum competition. To enter, simply share ‘how SQL Compare has helped you’.
2020-11-26 (first published: 2020-11-19)
Improving SQL Monitor’s Database Performance
Jeremiah Peschka, a tech lead for SQL Monitor development, explains the new SQL Server configuration options available for the data repository, and how enabling them might improve SQL Monitor performance, when reading and writing monitoring data.
2020-11-17
SQL Monitor 11.0: Monitor SQL Servers hosted on Amazon RDS
We’ve just released SQL Monitor 11.0, and for this latest version we partnered with Amazon AWS to let you monitor SQL Severs hosted on Amazon RDS. You can monitor these alongside your on-premises and other cloud-based servers, instances, and databases, giving you visibility in a single pane of glass. Version 11.0 also introduces new advanced tempdb monitoring metrics, and significant performance improvements.
2020-11-13
Creating a SQL Code Snippet in SQL Prompt and SSMS
Phil Factor's "getting started" guide for turning all your trusted and most frequently used queries into SQL code snippets.
2020-11-12
Questions about SQL Prompt you were too shy to ask
Phil Factor answers some questions you've been itching to ask about SQL Prompt, covering ranked code completion suggestions and auto-fixing SQL code smells, and suggesting where in the tool to find other nuggets of hidden treasure.
2020-11-06
Monitoring Amazon RDS SQL Servers with SQL Monitor v11
SQL Monitor v11 introduces native support for SQL Server instances hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS) platform. In this post we'll explore the metrics you need to keep an eye on with Amazon RDS SQL Server monitoring, how a monitoring tool will help you manage the process of migrating databases to the Amazon cloud, as well as measures its success, and how SQL Monitor allows you to monitor all your SQL Server instances, wherever they are hosted, through a single pane of glass.
2020-11-04
SQL IntelliSense and Autocomplete in SSMS
Phil Factor reviews the major features of SSMS IntelliSense and autocomplete and then explains how SQL Prompt fills in the gaps, and how to use to use the two in tandem to 'get the best of both worlds'.
2020-11-02
Format your own SQL code using this free online formatter
Redgate have launched their very own Online SQL Formatter powered by SQL Prompt. Visit the page here to try formatting your SQL code with a few pre-defined styles, or find out how to create and share your own styles with SQL Prompt.
2020-11-06 (first published: 2020-10-30)
Create a Feedback Loop between Devs and DBA Teams with Monitoring
With remote working still encouraged around the world, there is a need to ensure that operations teams have full visibility of your estate, not just your production servers. If your engineering teams have access to secure development and testing servers, deployment issues are caught before they reach production. Find out how to keep communication flowing between DBA and development teams in this free whitepaper. Read the whitepaper here.
2020-10-29
Blogs
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