A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t do this natively, as this really needs an XEvent session. I decided to see if...
2026-01-02 (first published: 2025-12-17)
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One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer because it lets you right-size vCPUs...
2026-01-02 (first published: 2025-12-11)
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For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday newsletter. It tends to hit my inbox in the wee hours of Wednesday.
2025-12-31 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been posting at the Straight Path Solutions site recently), but I did want to reply to...
2025-12-31 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I had a series of posts (health, music, reading, speaking, travel). This year, I took last...
2025-12-29
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I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mike Walsh
(blog) asks us:
Write two short notes to yourself. One to the...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive and access it from Power BI nearly live! We can officially short cut files to...
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-05)
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This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia I miss Brad. I enjoyed traveling around and working with him. I’d forgotten about Bob...
2025-12-26
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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