Quick SQL Prompt tip – using the ii snippet

SQL Prompt includes a number of snippets by default that can help you quickly write T-SQL code. These are templates of code that users use regularly. One of the more popular snippets is the “ii” snippet that helps with inserting data into a table. If I type “ii” and hit tab, I quickly get the Read more

Versioning an existing database using SQL Source Control

How to bring an existing database under Git version control. Read more

How to format a set of SQL scripts using SQL Prompt

Any database developer or DBA who spends much of their working week staring at SQL code quickly becomes set in their ways. They like to see the code laid out in a very particular way. They will struggle to look at, let alone digest and understand, code formatted in a ‘foreign’ style. It’s also rare Read more

How to create a directory of object-level scripts using SQL Compare

How to create a directory of object-level scripts from an existing database using SQL Compare GUI or command line. Read more

Quick SQL Prompt tip – why you should expand the wildcard

One of the great things about SQL Prompt is that it quickly removes the need to use so many keystrokes. That’s helpful and handy, but to become a really efficient T-SQL coder, you’ll want to practice incorporating a few tricks into your routine. Here’s a good one. Often I run into tables and can’t remember Read more

Using SQL Compare with In-Memory OLTP tables

SQL Compare can help you compare two databases that have In-Memory objects, the tables, their indexes and any natively-compiled procedures, and generate the appropriate scripts. Read more

Using SQL Compare with Row Level Security

As you test your row-level security in various environments, you can use SQL Compare to script out and deploy those changes to other databases. Read more

Using SQL Compare with Dynamic Data Masking

SQL Compare works with dynamic data masking, detecting the differences in masks across tables and generating the T-SQL you need to deploy your masking configuration to other databases. Read more

SQL Change Automation

Using database replication with automated deployments

For the SQL Change Automation team, it’s important that we take time out from development, occasionally, to explore some of the issues our customers face when automating database deployment. Following on from previous posts about cross-database and cross-server dependencies and production database drift, this article shares some of our thoughts about how to deal with database replication. Read more

Redgate Monitor

SQL Server monitoring from the trenches: An interview with Anthony Nocentino

I recently sat down with Enterprise Architect, Anthony Nocentino, to talk about how effective monitoring can help resolve many of the issues companies face every day. I was fascinated because my career revolves around how we can improve SQL Server monitoring. Anthony’s involves actually doing it at the coalface. He’s made a name for himself Read more

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