Learning From Breakage

We learn a lot when systems break, and we should appreciate that.

Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194

We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of the holidays and forgot to check on my host. Luckily, Louis Davidson (who did have...

Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art

I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece of ASCII Art. I have a screenshot here: For some reason, I thought, “I should...

Monday Monitor Tips: Learning While Using the Tool

A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have a variety of skills on their staff, and they have developers accessing Redgate Monitor. This...

Representative Data Challenges

We need data that represents the problem we want to solve, or we might not achieve our aims.

Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026

I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this time ,I’m in Cambridge and at the Redgate office. Maybe sitting in the foyer alcove,...

URL Safe or Not?

No Defaults Passwords Ever

Steve doesn't see a reason why we should have default passwords on systems ever.

Eight Minutes

When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference, one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a lot in their day job, often to complete tasks that they would have struggled to work on in the past, mostly because of time constraints, but also a lack […]

Fixing the Error