The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory

I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of Redgate. Those values came from our founders, Simon Galbraith and Neil Davidson. I am lucky...

Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs

I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home, and for consistency’s sake, I run this on my Win11 laptop and the home machine....

You Need a DBA Pipeline

Steve notes that DBAs need a privileged pipeline, separate from what they might use to update database schema.

Checking the Error Log II

Designing for Teams

When we build software, or we put together a process, we need to consider how teams use it, not just individuals.

Differences Between xp_readerrolog and sp_readerrorlog: #SQLNewBlogger

I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different from the one it wraps: xp_readerrorlog. This post digs into a few differences. Another post...

Absolute and Relative References

One of the challenges in digital systems involves how we reference other resources. Steve discusses whether absolute or relative references are better.

Car Update September 2026

Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are behind Tesla with software. A few of the weird UX and software engineering decisions they’ve...

Get Along

Steve chats with a few developers and gets some insights into how they are coping with AI.

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