A New Word: on tenderhooks
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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Blog Posts
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
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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Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how to set a FK constraint between two tables. The tool seemed to make it easy,...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-11)
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SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part of all the Versions!! 7 (70)– Foundation, OLAP Services, Query Analyzer 2000 (80) – SSAS,...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met people and made friends in the process. As I look back on it, I am...
2026-02-26
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Are you getting value from your reporting?
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you don’t have the time to focus on analysing the what the data is telling you?...
2026-02-25 (first published: 2026-02-14)
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Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran into this while trying to solve a problem recently and had to check the error...
2026-02-25
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Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been to build an agent which would answer your questions by looking into your data. It...
2026-02-25 (first published: 2026-02-15)
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Fabric Cost Analysis (FCA)
Monitoring costs in Microsoft Fabric can be trickier than it first appears. You might assume it’s just a flat fee per capacity (easy, right?), but real-world usage tends to...
2026-02-23 (first published: 2025-12-24)
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Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day job, I certainly didn’t expect to write this many blog posts about Git. I don’t...
2026-02-23 (first published: 2026-02-12)
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Liability for AI Errors
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers