Staying Employed

Steve talks about the ways you might think about employment in this age of AI.

A New Word: Immerensis

immerensis – n.  the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you – almost as if you’re selling them a used car that you know has a...

SQL Server Collations

The Book of Redgate–Being Reasonable

As a part of the Book of Redgate, we have a series of (red, of course) pages with the title “What we believe”. These are our values, as set...

Upgrading Your OS

Windows 7 support is ending, but Microsoft doesn't have a good plan for home users. Steve notes that the OS upgrade treadmill ought to come to an end soon.

The State of the Database Landscape in 2025: Insights and trends

How are you navigating the database landscape? Our latest report sheds light on the current state of database management and offers valuable insights into how organizations can navigate and simplify the growing complexities of the database landscape.

Browsing for Instances

Database First or Application First

Today Steve is wondering how you approach coordinating application and database changes. Share which one you deploy first.

Importing Flat Files

How Much AI Code Would You Use?

Today Steve asks the question of how much of your code could be written by GenAI.