How Redgate Monitor Monitors Azure-based SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances

Jon Hayman shows you how to set up Redgate Monitor to monitor Azure-based clustered SQL Server instances right alongside your on-premise clusters. Read more

How to Customize Schema Comparisons using Auto Map in SQL Compare

How the table automapping feature works in SQL Compare, and how to control its behavior. Read more

SQL Prompt Hidden Gem: Auto-fill the GROUP BY clause

Writing GROUP BY clauses is a very common, but tedious, activity for a SQL programmer. SQL Prompt will fill it in for you, with all non-aggregated columns returned by the query. Read more

Generating test data in JSON files using SQL Data Generator

Phil Factor shows how to use SQL Data Generator to produce as much pseudonymized data as you are likely to need for your testing, and then convert it to JSON so that you can also use it to test your MongoDB and Azure Cosmos databases, or to test out a new web service. Read more

SQL Server Database Provisioning: Getting Started with SQL Clone

Tony Davis takes a ‘first look’ at cloning databases with SQL Clone, reviewing some of the database provisioning challenges that we seek to overcome, explaining briefly how SQL Clone works, and then walking through a simple example of creating a clone from a live database. Read more

SQL Clone Quick Tip: Offloading DBCC checks

If you guard against database corruption by restoring backups to secondary server, licensed as per production, and then running DBCC CHECKDB integrity checks, then you might save a lot of restore time, and disk space, by offloading this task to a clone. Read more

How to deploy changes to Azure SQL Database using SQL Compare and Azure Active Directory

Describing SQL Compare's built-in Active Directory Authentication mode, which makes it easier and more secure to, for example, deploy schema changes from version control to an Azure SQL Database. Read more

How to record T-SQL execution times using a SQL Prompt snippet

Phil Factor shares a SQL Prompt snippet called timings, which he uses as a standard testbed for getting execution times for procedures and functions. Read more

Redgate Monitor Quick Tip: Using the SQL static code analysis performance rules

This quick tip illustrates Redgate Monitor's built-in set of Performance Rules for static code analysis. These rules are designed to highlight SQL syntax that could potential cause performance problems, and so indicate ways to improve the overall quality and performance of the workload, over time. Read more

How to import an existing database to SQL Change Automation

The Visual Studio extension of SQL Change Automation (SCA) allows you to adopt a migrations-first approach to database source control and deployment. There are a number of different ways teams can get started with SCA, in Visual Studio, and chere I’m going to show to get up and running when there is already an existing development database. Read more