SQL Express Agent

A New Word: Malotype

malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...

Cloning MSDB

Friday Flyway Tips–Undoing Development Changes

I had a customer ask about undoing changes made by developers, similar to what SQL Source Control does. I had to do a little research to show how to...

Growing Skills at Work

We all need to grow our skills at work. It can be challenging, but we can find ways, as well as advocate to management that resources are needed.

Atlanta for Two Days

Today is the first Redgate Summit of 2024 in Atlanta. I flew to town yesterday, There is a packed schedule, which is mostly repeated at our other events coming...

Converting to Bits

Navigating the Database Landscape

Today Steve has a few thoughts on his keynote topic today at the Redgate Summit.

A First Look at Redgate’s Subsetter

I have been a proponent of subsetting databases in dev/test for a long time. It took awhile, but as part of the Test Data Manager that Redgate launched at...

Have You Deployed an Availability Group?

Learning about the Availability Group technology can be valuable for your career. Today Steve asks if you've deployed one, and if not, perhaps you want to try.