T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find new hosts over the last few years to keep this party going and to expand...
2026-03-10
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Blog Posts
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...
2026-03-09 (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...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector databases — all comes together here! What is RAG? all the AI model has predefined...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-08)
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just getting into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve probably asked the same question I hear over and over:...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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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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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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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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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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