A New Word: Midding

midding – n. the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it – hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, talking quietly outside a party,...

Finding Data Types

One Month with the Dell Latitude 7450

It was just over a month ago that I got a Dell Latitude 7450 from our corporate IT group. It wasn’t my first choice, but as Redgate grows, they’re...

Your Computer Science Education

Steve wants to know how and what you learned about computing, as well as what was missing.

5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US

Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.

Back to Syracuse for SQL Saturday

Syracuse is having their first SQL Saturday on Sept 7, 2024. I’ll be there and hope to see you there as well. If you’re anywhere close, come on over...

Concatenating Strings

Grouping by Object Type in SQL Compare

A customer recently was asking about grouping objects by type to see all the differences in two databases for one set of objects, like all stored procedures. This post...

A Lack of Architecture and Planning

Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.

Monday Monitor Tips- Enabling Index Tracking in Redgate Monitor

There is a new index feature in Redgate Monitor, but it’s disabled by default. This post shows how to enable things. This is part of a series of posts...