The Book of Redgate: No Politics
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this value: In our context, this was about being open and transparent. This is the text...
2026-03-27
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Blog Posts
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture (CDC). That is still what is used to mirror SQL Server 2016 – 2022. SQL...
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released patches for SQL Server to address privilege escalation vulnerabilities in supported versions. Time to patch!
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-12)
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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7 we would learn about Vectors and Vector Databases. this is a place where AI data...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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A New Word: los vidados
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might have forgotten completely if someone hadn’t happened to mention them again – friends of friends,...
2026-03-20
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The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if ensure I could easily refresh dev and test environments on demand. In a small startup,...
2026-03-20 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you taken? I started my career as a preacher and ended it as a director in...
2026-03-20 (first published: 2026-03-10)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today on Day 4 I would like to write about the Transformer architecture — the foundation...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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Building the Team: Roles and Responsibilities in FinOps
In my experience, FinOps success has never been just about tools or dashboards. It comes down to people. The right structure, the right ownership, and clear accountability make all...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-17)
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Blogs
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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Getting Database MaiL Profiles
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