10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives

Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people who prefer a GUI over writing code to handle deployments, but the implementation has enough...

The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection

I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small servers with zero activity showed no progress, and then all 30 finished at the same...

T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget

I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to hear about that one outage that stands out in your memory. We all have incidents...

A Daily Report from Claude

Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has been gained in bits and pieces and is fragmented. I wasn’t sure I’d get a...

Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server

I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate Monitor MCP Server. It took me a few tries, and some help from engineers to...

T-SQL Tuesday #201 - Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Jeff Taylor
(blog) asks us for our take on temp tables:

So, do you...

A New Word: Gnossienne

gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life. One of the things I’ve learned throughout my life is that...

Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code

I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a part of the Data API Builder (DAB). I’m not sure why there wasn’t a separate...

When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?

Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform. Power BI, data engineering, warehousing, data science, real-time analytics, Copilot, and other experiences can all...

Learning Tool – Deepstash

A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key ideas, usually 10-12 per book. If I am thinking about reading a book, I check...