I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may not know the history, T-SQL Tuesday started back in December 2009 when Adam Machanic (Blog |LinkedIn)...
2026-03-03
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It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where everyone gets the day off. Well, not everyone, but anyone that has to work today...
2026-03-02
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I just need a few hours of your time… We get a variation of this request a LOT. So now it’s time to do something about it! Ad Hoc...
2026-03-02
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continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family, today on Day 2 i would like to discuss what came next after Generative AI...
2026-03-02
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Next Monday, March 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server 2025 Unleashed: AI, Performance & Beyond will take place! This hands-on training is designed to help DBAs,...
2026-03-02
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I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently about this and decided to explain it to myself, but in a slightly different way....
2026-03-02 (first published: 2026-02-18)
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I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on SQL Server performance and everything temporary / memory spill comes to tempdb and it is...
2026-03-02
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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog and i would like to start a “blog a day” series. i have been continuously...
2026-03-01
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on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which makes you feel that much more rooted to the world, even if the roots belong...
2026-02-27
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in Visual Studio Code…they make presenting (and generally working) in Visual Studio Code really smooth. But...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
By gbargsley
This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for...
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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