Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes in the responses. Every response had one or more of these themes woven into their...
2026-04-17
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Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to delve into visualisation of vector embeddings that were generated from the restaurant data pulled from...
2026-04-17
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Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes. Somewhere in the business, a decision maker is sitting on a question that the data...
2026-04-17 (first published: 2026-04-07)
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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....
2026-04-16 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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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...
2026-04-16 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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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...
2026-04-16 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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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...
2026-04-15 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue a chaotic cloud environment is where it gets interesting. FinOps is about building a culture...
2026-04-15 (first published: 2026-04-06)
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I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try and answer it myself. I assumed this would be easy, and it was, but I...
2026-04-15 (first published: 2026-03-30)
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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...
2026-04-13 (first published: 2026-04-12)
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By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
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