Advice I Like: Praise
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while they are alive when it makes a difference to them. Write it in a letter...
2025-09-05
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Blog Posts
Cosmos DB vs Traditional SQL: When to Choose What
From where I stand, the decision between Cosmos DB and a traditional SQL database often wants to be chosen between a sports car and a reliable sedan. Both will...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-18)
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Power BI dataflow Gen1 needs Gateway to connect to Azure SQL DB
I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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Adding a Named Default Constraint to a Table: #SQLNewBlogger
As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Azure IoT Operations
I want to talk about a fairly new product that you may not be aware of: Azure IoT Operations, which GA’d last November (it was first announced at Ignite...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-19)
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Using Python Code in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Why SQL Still Reigns in the Age of Cloud-Native Databases
In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity....
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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DevUp 2025 Recap
Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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PASS Data Community Summit LinkedIn Contest
If you're not having success in convincing your organization to send you to this year's PASS Data Community Summit, you could win a 3-day registration by submitting some basic...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-12)
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The Book of Redgate: Meetings
I think we might have forgotten this a bit, but on one of the pages, we have this title: A Meeting without an Objective is a Chat. You can...
2025-08-29
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Blogs
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
Forums
Intermittent Service Freezes and "State 23" Authentication Failure
Environment: SQL Server: 2019 Enterprise (15.0.4430.1) OS: Windows Server 2022 Standard (Build 20348) Virtualization:...
SQL Server audit with windows ad group
I am trying to create a filter on a SQL Server audit to capture...
Deadlock graph anomaly
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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