Do You Think About CheckDB?
Running checkdb is part of ensuring your database health and data integrity. Steve notes that you might want to review that you have the best strategy for your organization.
2020-06-04
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Editorials
2020-06-03
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2020-06-02
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Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
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2020-05-30
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Crack that Encrypted Data
Ransomware is becoming an issue. Steve Jones notes DBAs need to be ready to deal with these issues.
2020-05-29 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
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Jumping Air Gaps
There are all sorts of viruses, worms, and malware out in the world, and some of us have had to deal with them at different points in our career. SQL Slammer was particularly memorable for me, but there were plenty of non data related virus issues I've had to work on at various employers. To […]
2020-05-27
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Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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Building Better Software for Everyone
Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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,...
Forums
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Which 'Where' statement conditional upon a variable
Thanks in advance for any clues on this. I am trying to write a...
Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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