Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System

A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t do this natively, as this really needs an XEvent session. I decided to see if...

What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights

Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote that instantly stood out as my favorite of the day “Is it possible? …..Why not!...

Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!

Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is Ireland’s free, community led, Microsoft Data Platform event. We had a fantastic event this year...

Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS

SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you might have hit a wall trying to get it running. Here’s what happened when I...

Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded...

Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring

Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it required some work from customers. Now we’ve added native monitoring. This is part of a...

Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information

For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday newsletter. It tends to hit my inbox in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones

One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you’ve traditionally...

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been posting at the Straight Path Solutions site recently), but I did want to reply to...

T-SQL Tuesday #193 - Notes to Self

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mike Walsh
(blog) asks us:

Write two short notes to yourself. One to the...