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No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger

I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve never tried it, but the batch separator has to be separate, which I’ll show. Another...

T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …

This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound big, but this is a monthly party (started by Adam Machanic). We have 12 blog...

Bad IT People

What happens when you have bad IT people working in your company? Steve Jones says that they always will be around, but we might not want to enable them to continue in this business when we find them.

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A Career of Memories

Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate, I’ve participated in many events, some we hosted, some we sponsored. At most of these...

A Spread of Vacation

I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got back from a week long vacation in May, cruising with my family. Usually my trips...

Independence Day 2026

Independence Day 2026

A few thoughts from Steve on the 4th of July.

AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness

I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a backspace key relatively quickly on most keyboards. That and a space bar. AI helps me...