The Benefits of Teaching
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of time and effort, more so when you build your own content. So why teach?
2025-12-05
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Blog Posts
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
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Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
2025-12-04
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PASS Keynote Shots
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...
2025-12-04
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Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree. I've built a web tool that helps visualize this tree as a learning exercise.
Foreword
I've leveraged...
2025-12-03 (first published: 2025-11-09)
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Tech Conferences and Expanding Your View
Tech conferences aren't just for networking and learning how to address a problem you're having technically. They are also for expanding your view of what's possible.
2025-12-03 (first published: 2025-11-20)
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Running SQL Server on KubeVirt – Getting Started
With all the changes that have happened with VMware since the Broadcom acquisition I have been asked more and more about alternatives for running SQL Server. One of the...
2025-12-02
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Data Conferences – Worth Every Dollar
Some of the best career enhancers you can buy. Why I Go to Conferences I go for two big reasons: Learning from the best. The folks teaching at...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-12)
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Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook to integrate with ServiceNow. However, they were also trying to integrate in a richer way...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format and the rules for taking it and after I have taken time to learn how...
2025-12-01
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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