Tag Archives: SQLServerCentral

Moving to AWS EC2

Posted on March 28, 2018 by

SQLServerCentral has been stuck in the past for some time, but we’ve finally decided to move. I’ve been asking for this, and it’s usually a resource issue. However, earlier this year we started to debate and examine the costs, and … Continue reading →

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Should We Move to Azure?

Posted on November 8, 2017 by

This editorial was originally published on May 23, 2014. It is being re-published as Steve is out of the office, with a few minor editorial changes. Update: We made a number of changes last year, upgraded the forums, and have continued … Continue reading →

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Changes are Coming to the SQLServerCentral Forums

Posted on January 9, 2017 by

The codebase for SQLServerCentral is old. Not as old as it looks, since our developers tried to keep the look and feel of the original site when they upgraded the underlying framework in 2009. Since then we’ve made a few … Continue reading →

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The Slack Integration

Posted on March 9, 2016 by

About a year ago, my group at Redgate Software adopted Slack as a way of communicating with each other. Slack has become very popular with development teams, and is used extensively in many companies, including my own. At first I liked this tool, which … Continue reading →

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A SQLServerCentral DR Event

Posted on September 23, 2014 by

We had a disaster at SQLServerCentral this past weekend. It wasn’t a big disaster, but it was an event that required a restore of data. An Administrative Error On Saturday, I was attending SQL Saturday #331 in Denver. In between … Continue reading →

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SQL Scripts Manager

Posted on March 26, 2014 by

We have Down Tools Week multiple times per year at Red Gate. This allows various employees to spend a week on a project, working to build something new and interesting that we rarely have time to spend our limited resources … Continue reading →

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2013 Tribal Awards

Posted on December 8, 2013 by

We’re the #sqlfamily on Twitter, and often in person where we often get together for a #sqlrun in the morning and a bit of #sqlkaraoke at night. In some sense, we are a tribe within the larger technology community, focused on our common work with SQL … Continue reading →

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Filestream needs MAX

Posted on September 27, 2013 by

I wrote today’s Question of the Day for SQLServerCentral on Filestream. I asked which data type was needed for Filestream data, and gave a few choices. Someone pointed out that I wasn’t complete in my choices, and that was by … Continue reading →

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The Colocated Dangers

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

We went down. It was quite a surprise for me, and something that hasn’t happened in a long time. It wasn’t for long, but a month ago, there was a period of time when SQLServerCentral was down. It’s also one … Continue reading →

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Closing Out Replies

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

This editorial was originally published on Oct 17, 2006. It is being republished as Steve is at SQLBits 9 today. I’ve been posting on the Internet for nearly 17 years, from back in the days of Usenet, GOPHER, ARCHIE and … Continue reading →

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