The New England SQL user group...

Could SQL Saturday and Data Saturday run in parallel? Or could we keep SQL Saturday for the name recognition and start pushing a Data Saturday track in SQL Saturdays that...

While I am very attached to SQL Saturday, I see Randolph's point about Data Saturday. Perhaps Redgate can use the name recognition of SQL Saturday to boot up Data Saturday...

The default max column size in SSMS is 256...

Agreed. I hate abbreviating that when it's so much clearer to just spell it out.

There are still a lot of tools out there that demand SA login. Some even have checks to make sure they have such elevated privilege. Bowen if you run...

We did a test run of AG in our DEV environment. Getting 1.5+ TB of databases synced took a bit but it worked and using our cname for the DEV...

A boss I had was famous for walking through the area and if he saw an unlocked machine, he'd hit <ctrl><alt>arrow to rotate the developers screen and then lock it....

SQL Server 2012 Express Edition only uses up to 1GB of memory. So if you need more than that to perform your work, you'll either need to see if you...

Before the pandemic, I was working from home 3 days a week. My commute is a 90 mile round trip nightmare (Boston traffic is a thing of legend). I'll stick...

I'm with you Steve. Like you, I usually lie about my birthday and make up random answers to security questions and store them in my password vault. Each site gets...

I worked for a company in the late 70’s that was running on DEC VAX 11/780 systems. One day you could hear everyone saying, “Hey! Where did my files go?”...

I think the default should be that you're automatically "opted out" unless you decide to "opt in".  Of course, that won't be profitable for these vendors and so that...

This year was my first PASS Summit. I've wanted to go for quite a while but there was no way my employer would spend the money needed to attend the...

We have Redgate SQL Monitor looking after 10 servers at work. It's been very helpful in tracking down issues. The main dashboard gives me a quick look at what is...