Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source PowerShell. I was standing between Jason Helmick and Jeffrey Snover, trying very hard not to...
2026-09-09
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #202 - That One Outage You'll Never Forget
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Marlon Ribunal
(blog) asks us to talk about that one SQL Server outage...
2026-09-08
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New article – migrating from a named instance
Do you have a case where you have a named instance you'd like to migrate to a default instance? Is there pushback on doing so? Are there concerns that...
2026-09-07 (first published: 2026-08-26)
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Using the SIGN() Function: #SQLNewBlogger
I was trolling the docs and noticed the SIGN() function. I have never written this in production code, but it is an interesting function. This post looks at where...
2026-09-07 (first published: 2026-08-26)
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The Book of Redgate: Evidence
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to be data driven. Across my 18 years, I’ve had plenty of people use evidence from...
2026-09-04 (first published: 2026-08-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
The T-SQL Tuesday #201 round-up: nine bloggers on whether temp tables are a friend or a foe, from full-throated defenses to a lab built to prove me wrong.
2026-09-04 (first published: 2026-08-25)
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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...
2026-09-02 (first published: 2026-08-21)
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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...
2026-09-02 (first published: 2026-08-23)
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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...
2026-09-01
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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...
2026-08-31
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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