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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Blog Posts
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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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...
2026-01-02 (first published: 2025-12-17)
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Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer because it lets you right-size vCPUs...
2026-01-02 (first published: 2025-12-11)
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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.
2025-12-31 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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Blogs
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
By Zikato
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic,...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced!...
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers