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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Blog Posts
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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Resetting on the AI hype train
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of AI. AI's current state is somewhere between the die hard evangelists and the doomsayers
2026-01-05 (first published: 2025-12-19)
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Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a pyramid scheme – from Excellent Advice for Living For sure. As much as I am...
2026-01-02
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Blogs
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...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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