Worse Before Better
We need to approach software development with a balance of making things better, and ensuring they work.
We need to approach software development with a balance of making things better, and ensuring they work.
In this article we look at how to create a scale-out SQL Server PolyBase solution on AWS
Redgate estimate that the savings realized with a monitoring tool could be well over $85,000 / year*. Does your organization understand how a monitoring tool can impact almost every department?
Google Data Studio helps you create comprehensive reports and data visualizations. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to data from supported SaaS, Big Data and NoSQL sources for visualizations, dashboards, and more. CData Connect Cloud provides a live cloud-to-cloud interface for all your data, making it easy to build reports from […]
Learn how you can get better charting in Azure Data Studio with SandDance.
How Dry Run scripts work, and how they can be used to deliver a single-script release artifact to Staging, verify placeholder substitutions in SQL migration scripts, and simply team code reviews.
SQL Server sequence objects have several properties that control how they behave. Greg Larson explains the options of using SQL Server sequence objects.
The Advent of Code is live, and Steve finds it to be a fun way to take a break during your day.
Introduction In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new feature called dynamic data masking, which allows you to mask the values of certain columns and keep that data hidden from certain users, without having to modify your applications. Let's take a look at how SQL Server does data masking, and compare it to the way Gallium Data […]
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By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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