A New Word: Fawtle
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only endears them more to you, in the way that impurities dissolved in water are what...
2026-01-09
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Blog Posts
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests, demands, suggestions, and more about how to add AI into our products and help developers...
2026-01-09
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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...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer(NLB). And, our good friend S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2026-01-08)
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Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of my gaming PC's hard drives. Many of the more recent photos were also scattered across...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2025-12-24)
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Another Change
Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity firm. There are no details of terms, and you can read the press release. It’s...
2026-01-07
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Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the UI. Workspaces, capacities, and tenant-level settings all need repeatable, scriptable management. FabricTools is a community-driven PowerShell module...
2026-01-07 (first published: 2025-12-24)
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Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets
When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and security. Cost management should be part of that conversation—but in practice, it’s often treated as...
2026-01-07 (first published: 2025-12-22)
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I recommend Smart Brevity (book) for communications
Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
2026-01-06
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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...
2026-01-05 (first published: 2025-12-15)
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Alert Analysis
By Steve Jones
We keep adding new AI capabilities to Redgate Monitor, where it makes sense. Check...
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
Forums
Install SQL Scripts via GUI Wizard
Hallo all! My problem is this: I have quite a bunch of TSQL scripts...
Converting Money
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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
Question of the Day
Converting Money
Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?
DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY; SET @YenAmount = ¥1500; SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;See possible answers