Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database deployments, you've probably already run into its limits. It's still very much in its infancy....
2026-07-20 (first published: 2026-07-10)
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Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend. Azure SQL’s new Automatic Index Compaction targets page density directly — so I tested it.
2026-07-10 (first published: 2026-06-30)
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A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday, and everything that went right—and wrong—along the way.
2026-06-26 (first published: 2026-06-06)
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SQL Server 2025 In my previous blog post, we briefly covered the new compression being introduced in SQL Server 2025. After some...
2025-08-26
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Compression was introduced in SQL Server version 2008. While it helped, the compression ratios were frequently too low to justify the...
2025-08-13
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Calling APIs directly from SQL Server has been available in Azure SQL DB since 2022, but now it's available in on-prem in SQL Server 2025...
2025-07-03
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Calling an API has been in Azure SQL since 2022, but it was only recently added to SQL Server 2025 Preview. This new feature...
2025-07-01
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When managing large databases or high-transactional databases, the performance of your underlying storage system is crucial, whether it...
2025-06-18
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Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...
2025-06-17
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Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down! When local data centers were the primary source...
2025-06-12
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By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
By Steve Jones
We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that...
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Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?
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