Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)

Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working with cloud data platforms, SQL engines, and machine learning pipelines, a handful of titles keep...

Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026

I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my DataGrillen session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform to Github. If...

The Book of Redgate: Profits

Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling tools that help you. If we do a good job, we make money. If we...

PowerShell Strikes Back: Know Your Quotes, Young Padawan

This is Week 1 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...

Understanding Fabric MCP

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more complicated than it really is. The easiest way to think about it is this: MCP...

A Redgate Data Modeler Gotcha with Relationships

This happened to me recently after being busy with non-data modeling tasks for a few weeks. I went to add a relationship and was confused about the behavior. Read...

Breaking Rules in Rome

Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s Club. I was awarded this, along with our top people in Sales, for the work...

Why Claude?

Every major model out there can summarise documents, write code and answer multi step questions – then if you decide to go with a specific vendor based on costs...

Advice I Like: Celebrate Success

“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each one were the final goal. That way, no matter where it ends, you are victorious.”...

How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift

Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying the most expensive queries is crucial to optimize resource usage and improve overall system efficiency.

Step-by-Step...