A New Word: Redesis
redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might well face a totally different set of constraints and capabilities, any of which might propel...
2025-02-07
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Blog Posts
AIs Struggle with Family
This post looks at a logic problem asked to an AI, and which is struggles at finding an answer. This is based on an article noting this question stumps...
2025-02-07 (first published: 2025-01-31)
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Cool AI sites
As I researched and wrote my OpenAI and LLMs blogs (see Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs, Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs – Part 2 and Introduction to OpenAI and...
2025-02-07 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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Friday Flyway Tips: Autopilot in 10 minutes
The Solutions Engineers at Redgate recently released an Introduction to Redgate Flyway Autopilot course on our Redgate University. They’ve been working on this for quite some time to help...
2025-02-07
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Get a PAT in Azure DevOps
I have a presentation recently on Continuous Integration Using Local Agents in Azure DevOps and one of the things I do in there is get a PAT for Azure...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-27)
390 reads
Take over Ownership in Microsoft Fabric
When you create an item in Microsoft Fabric (a notebook, a lakehouse, a warehouse, a pipeline …), you are also the owner of the item. There has been an...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-29)
507 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #183 Invite: Tracking Permissions
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this month I’m hosting. I realized that I didn’t host in 2024 and since I run the thing, I ought to be...
2025-02-04
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Declaring a Complex PK in a CREATE TABLE: #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I was talking with someone who had not named any of the primary keys (PKs) in their database. They used system generated names and when they ran comparisons,...
2025-02-03
89 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: Using the PowerShell API
Redgate Monitor has grown tremendously from its early days and I find many customers using this to monitor lots of servers, like thousands. In those cases, some of tasks...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-20)
318 reads
Using OneLake for Excel Files in Microsoft Fabric
Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into in Microsoft Fabric. I won’t go into all the context, but the goal was to...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-21)
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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