SQL skills just got MORE important

There seems to be a school of thought in the tech community that a robust knowledge SQL is now optional. After all, with modern AI tools able to generate...

The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”

After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the various industries, I am placing a bet: agents will become the default interface for most...

Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler

One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how to adjust a FK constraint between two tables. The tool seemed to makes this  easy,...

Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps

Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly last year’s “perfectly optimised” setup isn’t so perfect anymore. Over time, I’ve realised that FinOps...

Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes

When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned and unplanned failovers. The easy case is a planned failover, where you deliberately move the...

Answering Questions On Dropped Columns

Howdy folks! Long time no write.
In this post, I will be answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
A quick refresh
If you haven’t read the...

Walking Through an Unplanned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes

In my planned failover walkthrough, I showed what happens when you deliberately move the primary role to another replica. That’s the easy case. Now I want to show what...

Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER

I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal’s series on file header pages. If...

Did You Really Name That Default?

Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to avoid having SQL Server name them for you. I closed with the following statement:

SQL Server...

GROUP BY ALL – Is it ALL you ever need?

You have probably seen a couple of cool GROUP BY features that came with Oracle Database 26ai. You can check out the short video below but since you’re on...