Managing an IT team is a tough job. While demands on your services are increasing, both internally and externally, the need to be aware of and in control of application and server performance is a constant pressure. In fact, there are four key elements that currently affect the working life of an IT leader:... Read more
In 2018 we ran the industry’s first ever state of SQL Server monitoring survey. We received an excellent response from over 600 people in a range of sectors, in organizations of every size across the globe. They provided valuable insights into what they thought the biggest challenges were for them and their estates over... Read more
Over 600 technology professionals who work in organizations that use SQL Server recently responded to our survey to discover the current state of SQL Server monitoring. We asked people across a range of sectors, in organizations of every size around the globe, about how they monitor SQL Server, the technologies they work with, and... Read more
The increasing size of SQL Server databases, alongside the growing complexity of SQL Server estates, is making more organizations realize the need for a tool that enables proactive monitoring. Hand-rolled scripts can provide basic information, like wait stats and memory utilization, but that’s often not enough. With the database a key element of business... Read more
Jamie Wallis introduces the new Summary View, which is a tab that sits alongside SQL View and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more
On your first day at Redgate you get a packet of Jammie Dodgers. Although I was never told exactly what to do with them, the implied meaning was that they were to help me get to know my colleagues. If I shared them around the office over a cup of coffee, it might help... Read more
SQL Compare 12.4 adds the Summary view, a tab that sits alongside SQL view and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more
The ability to customize and refine formatting options has long been a feature of SQL Prompt. In the eighth major update to the tool, we’ve introduced a brand new formatting engine that lets you manage your formatting options like never before. Not only can you set your style exactly how you like it, with... Read more
When you’re hard at work, it’s all too easy to make a mistake as you rush to get a job done. Say, for example, you have a QA database you need to get rid of. You run a query to drop it and then… oh no! You’ve accidentally run it in Production. Your day... Read more
In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced support for system-versioned temporal tables. Temporal tables are a database feature that provides information about data stored at any point in time, rather than only the data that is correct at that specific moment. Why are temporal tables needed? Simply put, they make it much easier to analyze... Read more
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