A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s pain, only ever searching their face for some faint evocation of it, then rifling through...

Advice I Like: Ranch Rules

Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a ranch rule. Leave something as you found it. If...

PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap

This is long overdue but life and distractions happened. It’s been a little over two months since I returned home from PASS Summit 2025.

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started to build this in PowerPoint. I decided to switch to Claude and ended up with...

Using AI for Git Hooks

Recently I had someone internally ask about whether SQL Source Control supports Git Hooks. Since it was after UK work hours, I decided to run a quick test. One...

Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview

One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work...

Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!

Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals will take place! This hands-on session is designed to help DBAs, developers, and consultants...

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes

Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes

After tempdb, msdb is often the most abused system database, growing unchecked until it tanks...

Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages

At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better at their jobs. Everyone is asking for AI, as well as the ability to turn...