The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”

After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the various industries, I am placing a bet: agents will become the default interface for most...

Beware of Generic SQL Server License Keys (What to Use Instead)

Beware of Generic SQL Server License Keys (What to Use Instead)

I (think) realize that content here is probably more applicable to mid-to-large organizations than small...

SQL skills just got MORE important

There seems to be a school of thought in the tech community that a robust knowledge SQL is now optional. After all, with modern AI tools able to generate...

On Speaking Well

Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to speak. Though Professor Winston is no longer with us, his talk still is. If you...

Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics

One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add custom mertics for various purposes. This has been popular, and along with our curated list...

Walking Through an Unplanned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes

In my planned failover walkthrough, I showed what happens when you deliberately move the primary role to another replica. That’s the easy case. Now I want to show what...

Answering Questions On Dropped Columns

Howdy folks! Long time no write.
In this post, I will be answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
A quick refresh
If you haven’t read the...

Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes

When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned and unplanned failovers. The easy case is a planned failover, where you deliberately move the...

Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER

I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal’s series on file header pages. If...

T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP

Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes in the responses. Every response had one or more of these themes woven into their...