SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table
I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Speaking at dataMinds Saturday & Techorama 2024
I have the pleasure to announce I’ll be presenting at two conferences this spring. The first one is at dataMinds Saturday 2024 (back in-person!): Yes, it’s a long abstract...
2024-03-29 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Interview around DevOps, Data, AI and Microsoft Fabric
A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Goals for 2024
Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...
2024-03-20
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DevOps: It’s About the Team, Not Just the Tech
In November 2023 I did a session at PASS Summit and one of my sessions was voted https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/have-you-watched-some-of-the-most-popular-sessions-from-summit-2023/ That session was called DevOps is about Growing People rather than...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?
At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-18)
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Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format
(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric
You might know the feeling: you’re writing code in a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric and suddenly you have to leave your workstation for a while. Someone ran the doorbell...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Friday Flyway Tips – Inserting Column in the Middle of a Table
I had a customer question whether Flyway Desktop (FWD) would cause problems if developers were adding columns into the middle of tables. It’s a valid concern, and this post...
2024-03-22 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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A New Word: Malotype
malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...
2024-03-15
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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