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The Book of Redgate: Ingeniously Simple

Redgate has been known for many useful tools that are easy to use. We’ve tried to do that in all our point tools. We talk about simplicity all the...

The Third Sabbatical

I can’t believe I’ve been at Redgate long enough to get a third sabbatical. I’ve very lucky to have this job, still enjoy it, and get the benefit. I’ve...

What is a Failed Deployment?

Today Steve talks about the concept of what a failure is when deploying changes.

Modifying a Trigger to Capture More Info: #SQLNewBlogger

I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables. This is a second post looking at triggers, in this case, modifying my trigger to...

The Trigger Updated Column(s)

What Keeps You Employed?

This week Steve asks how you would describe your job.

T-SQL Tuesday #187–Solving Problems

This month we have a great invite from Joe Fleming, a first time host of T-SQL Tuesday. Joe reached out when I requested some hosts and I’m glad he...

Adding Lots of Dates

Monday Monitor Tips: Customizing Data Retention

One of the biggest challenges with monitoring data is managing the volume over time. Lots of bespoke/home-grown solutions don’t do this well, and some commercial products have a gross...