Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management wants everyone to be more productive with AI. Redgate Monitor isn’t immune from this wave....
2026-03-09
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Blog Posts
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on SQL Server performance and everything temporary / memory spill comes to tempdb and it is...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-02)
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The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control without the right practices in place. That’s where FinOps comes in—it’s a powerful...
2026-03-09
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What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps) is an integrated data and analytics platform designed for modern data-driven workloads, such as data...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not just posting about shipping—stopped talking about MCP. No dramatic announcement. No hot take thread. They...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong. A good question to ask yourself...
2026-03-06 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has more detail. This is the text from the facing page: What we do is very...
2026-03-06
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What is ALM in Fabric?
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud platforms, my main focus has always been on helping teams streamline their development process. A...
2026-03-06 (first published: 2026-03-02)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we will discuss more on different free notebooks available to write / code LLM and get...
2026-03-05
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A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution that meets your needs and you’re scared about the costs of a fully bespoke reporting...
2026-03-04 (first published: 2026-02-22)
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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