Unleashing Skills onto my database
You may have already seen that thanks to Kris Rice, we now have a baseline set of Oracle skills available for your favourite AI tools. Check out the skills...
2026-04-28
Blog Posts
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB as the source) that I’ve managed to run into, twice. I’ve set up mirroring by...
2026-04-27 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an example of why it can behave weirdly. This post looks at something you might not...
2026-04-27 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your Laptop session at the Houston AI-lytics 2026 event last week, so this post looks at...
2026-04-27
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Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out with them. The slides with links...
2026-04-25
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The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve worked with them in some capacity since 2002 and I’ve felt this along the way:...
2026-04-25 (first published: 2026-04-24)
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Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards or optimisation scripts. Tools can highlight waste, but culture determines whether anyone acts on it....
2026-04-24 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196
This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on Wheels blog for a long time and I appreciate all that he does, especially given...
2026-04-24 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home office, ready to talk about a topic that comes up more than you’d think: storing...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but still need high availability and disaster recovery? You’re not alone. One of the challenges with...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-12)
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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