Teambuilding and Bonding
Steve Jones attended a day out from the Red Gate offices recently and he talks about the value of those experiences.
2012-05-10
167 reads
Editorials
SQL Server on RDS
Amazon now offers SQL Server 2008 R2 in their RDS service. It's an easy way to get working with SQL Server with a minimal investment.
2012-05-09
294 reads
The Colocated Dangers
An outage at SQLServerCentral reminded Steve Jones that it's not "if" a disaster will occur, but "when" it will occur that should have you preparing for a disaster at some point in the future.
2012-05-08
115 reads
Mobile Password Protection
Security is becoming more of an issue for mobile devices as we store and access more information on them all the time.
2012-05-07
98 reads
Responsibility for Security
Steve Jones talks about security, and the developer's role in ensuring secure code.
2012-05-07
340 reads
The Best Way to Learn
This Friday Steve Jones is looking to see how you might like to improve your educational materials. With the success of our Stairway Series, we are looking to find better ways to teach people about SQL Server.
2012-05-04
320 reads
Learn XML
Steve Jones talks about XML and how it will be more and more important for DBAs to understand this in the future.
2012-05-03
721 reads
Being Responsible for Code
How responsible should developers be for their code? Facebook has an interesting way of looking at their engineers' performance.
2012-04-30
269 reads
When Will You Upgrade to SQL Server 2012?
Having noticed a very low rate of migration to the latest version of SQL Server, Brad McGehee asks - when will you upgrade to 2012?
2012-04-30
731 reads
Security Outside the Database
Database security needs to improve, and while SQL Server continues to get better, there is more work to do. However there are plenty of security issues outside the database that also need to be addressed.
2012-04-26
180 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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