A Worse Computer; A Better Car

Steve gets a new EV, which brings with it a new software experience.

Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server

I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on our Redgate Monitor team to add one to their system. They did, started adding tools,...

The Fringe Festival

I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with my wife. She came over to the UK with me for a quick trip. We...

The SQL Server MCP Server

Building Great Software

Steve notes that building great software isn't easy, and there is a lot of work that goes into this. Even in today's age of AI.

The Range of Customers

Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger

Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL Server Central: Getting the Average. Isn’t is slower? A fair question. This quick post looks...

T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables

This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many people have stopped blogging that it’s a challenge to keep this going. Jeff Taylor has...

Adding an HTTP MCP Server to VSCode

I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API Builder. In that post I showed how to query the MCP server from VSCode, but...

Don’t Fight with AI

I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools to see how well things worked. I realized that AI isn’t great for everything and...