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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Blog Posts
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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AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI, Today on Day 3 I would like to write about LLM models — Open Source...
2026-03-04 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode...
2026-03-04 (first published: 2026-02-23)
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The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll see companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Lovable, and Poolside AI dominating the conversation. Different names,...
2026-03-03 (first published: 2026-03-02)
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may not know the history, T-SQL Tuesday started back in December 2009 when Adam Machanic (Blog |LinkedIn)...
2026-03-03
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A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where everyone gets the day off. Well, not everyone, but anyone that has to work today...
2026-03-02
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Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
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XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
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