Understanding how to Successfully Sell the Cloud
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How to Find the SQL Server Instance Startup Time
This article explains the different methods to find the startup time of an SQL Server. We can use any of the following specified methods to find the instance startup time: Create the date of TempDB. The log from Windows event viewer and SQL Server Erro …
Uncovering the mysteries of PostgreSQL (auto) vacuum
Welcome to the second blog of the “magic of parameters” series. In the first entry, I covered memory parameters, and in this article. In this article will talk about PostgreSQL configuration parameters which manage the (auto)vacuum and (aut …
Database Branching and Merging without the Tears
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How to Configure Ola Hallengren’s Database Maintenance Scripts for Backups
Someone told you that you should be using Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Scripts. You’ve downloaded his Maintenance Solution.sql, you ran it in the master database, and … now you’re not sure what’s supposed to happen next. I …
[Video] Office Hours: Testing the First Responder Kit
I tested the April release of the FRK, then answered your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 28:37 Make_a_car_and_call_it_a_Brentley: Hi Brent, thanks for everything you do for the community …

How to Create a SQL Database on a New Drive in Ubuntu
This article explains different methods to move a SQL database into a new directory of Ubuntu Linux. This article covers the following topics. How to install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu Linux. How to add a new drive in Linux. Attach the StackOverflow dat …
Free Webcast Next Week! What’s New (and Actually Good) in SQL Server 2022
It’s May 2023, and believe it or not, some of the flagship features in Microsoft’s latest version still aren’t ready for prime time yet. Good news, though: there are a few things that genuinely make your life easier with minimal work …

Add a Second NIC for an Availability Group to Separate Network Traffic
Introduction Sometimes we face the scenario in an enterprise environment that the database in SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) has high concurrency read and write access from application servers. If we keep using the one network interface …
Redgate opens the doors to cross-database DevOps Test Data Management
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Benefits and Limitations of SCHEMABINDING Views in SQL Server
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Finding External References in Database Deployments
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Cheat Sheet for SQL Server DBA Daily Operations
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PostgreSQL Table Import/Export from and to CSV File
Overview In this article, we will cover a very important technique of working with a PostgreSQL table. Let us take a look at the topics we will cover in this article: Export table to CSV file. Import CSV file into table The only prerequisite for this a …
Importing data into a MySQL database using LOAD DATA
Database and development teams often load data from plain text files into their MySQL databases. The files might be used to add lookup data, support test and development environments, populate new MySQL instances, load data from regular feeds, or in ot …