Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will...
2026-07-17 (first published: 2026-07-10)
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Blog Posts
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a shopping list of red flags I've learned to spot, from AI-generated code to SSMS map...
2026-07-17 (first published: 2026-07-07)
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The Book of Redgate: Products
We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that focused on this: The text on the next page is: Shipping something amazing is better...
2026-07-17
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Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the tenth consecutive year, recognized in the Azure SQL and SQL Server technical areas under Data...
2026-07-16
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Azure – HorizonDB
As Open Source – PostgreSQL and AI is a growing and powerful DB system, AWS and Google already have AWS Aurora and Google AlloyDB, which are Cloud Native PostgreSQL...
2026-07-15 (first published: 2026-07-14)
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Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation
Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile was a log line — useful for an audit trail, useless at 3am. v1.2.0 closes...
2026-07-15
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Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger
This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something new. I decided to verify what was in the article and do some research. The...
2026-07-15
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Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is small enough to dump and restore in a maintenance window, or it isn't. Once you...
2026-07-15 (first published: 2026-07-03)
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Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly invisible to many. Those countless sleepness nights are a testament to our dedication. Whether that...
2026-07-15 (first published: 2026-07-06)
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The “best” tool
I had a question the other day that constantly pops up on my feed whether it’s on social media or people asking Q&A at a conference etc. And that...
2026-07-15 (first published: 2026-07-13)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
T-SQL Tuesday
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers