Knoxville M365 Community Days Recap
Hello data friends! Had a blast at my first ever M365 Community Day this past weekend! Thank you to all the amazing organizers and sponsors who made it happen,...
2025-03-04
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL offerings
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers, and compute tiers that it can get quite confusing when choosing the right option for...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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Monday Monitor Tips: VLF Alerts
A recent change made to Redgate Monitor to add a new alert for VLF count. This post looks at the change. This is part of a series of posts...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-24)
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Advice I Like: Investing and Growing Rich
Investing small amounts of money over a long time works miracles, but no one wants to get rich slow. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice,...
2025-02-28
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The London Redgate Summit
In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate...
2025-02-28
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Top 10 Careers in Data
Would you re-order these? Machine Learning Engineer $$$$$ Develop and deploy AI models Optimize machine learning algorithms for efficiency Work with big data frameworks to process large datasets Data...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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A Little Brainstorming with an AI
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than send some emails or get on a call, I decided to ask my local AI...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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The Mysterious Empty Table
It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...
2025-02-26 (first published: 2025-02-17)
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Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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