Advice I Like: Focus on what’s important
Don’t let someone else’s urgency becomes your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. –...
2025-06-13
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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...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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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...
2025-06-13
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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...
2025-06-11
42 reads
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...
2025-06-10
67 reads
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...
2025-06-09
9 reads
A Basic Update Trigger: #SQLNewBlogger
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables. As I explained a few things, I thought this would make a nice series, so...
2025-06-04
20 reads
Getting References for GenAI Results
I wrote an editorial on the view of GenAI tech from execs and someone commented that they wanted references for results. Most of us might take a result from...
2025-06-02
20 reads
A New Word: Falesia
falesia– n. the disquieting awareness that someone’s importance to you and your importance to them may not necessarily match – that your best friend might only think of you...
2025-05-30
7 reads
Copilot Outside of SSMS Seems to Work
I read Brent’s first look at SSMS and Copilot in there. He didn’t have a great opinion of the tool, especially comparing it to Gemini or Claude. I haven’t...
2025-05-30
72 reads
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Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
By Rayis Imayev
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By Ed Elliott
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted...
Beginner’s Guide: Create a File Organizer CLI Tool in Rust
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How Many Can Be the Greatest
I am trying to analyze a number of columns in a large table to determine the highest value for each row. In SQL Server 2022, we have the GREATEST function, which will return the greatest value from those columns passed in. How many columns can I include in an expression like this:
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