Monday Monitor Tips: Searching Procedures
A customer was asking about how to track all the stored procedures that execute on their system. We have a section in Redgate Monitor that’s set to look at...
2025-08-18
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Sabbatical 3 Review
I’m back. My last day of work was Jun 27 and I came back a few days ago, on Aug 13. Just over six weeks away and I am...
2025-08-15
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Advice I Like: Naps
Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarassment. – from Excellent Advice for Living I don’t like naps. In fact, I try to avoid them and keep...
2025-08-15
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SQL Server Management Studio uses the Visual Studio installer
Yes, SSMS 21 uses the Visual Studio installer. No, you don’t need to download it every time. No, you don’t need a Visual Studio license to use it.
The post...
2025-08-14
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Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric: Why It Matters and What You Gain
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly seeking ways to simplify their analytics stack, unify fragmented tools, and unlock real-time insights. Enter Microsoft Fabric, a cloud-native, AI-powered data platform...
2025-08-14
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Managing Enterprise Storage with Pure Storage Fusion in PowerShell
When managing storage infrastructure at scale, one of the most powerful approaches is treating related storage resources as cohesive Workloads rather than individual components. This becomes especially important when...
2025-08-14
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Terraform Commands
I realized I never created a post to show how to deploy Terraform from VS Code. I haven’t done that in a while because I don’t do it at...
2025-08-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #189–AI and your Career
I’m late to the party this month. Taiob Ali has a great invite for a topic that is likely on most people’s minds: AI and your career. I constantly...
2025-08-13
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TSQL Tuesday #189: How is AI changing our careers
This month’s TSQL Tuesday invite is from my good friend, long standing MVP and community volunteer Taiob Ali – Taiob’s call is to blog on how AI, (the biggest...
2025-08-13
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Using SQL Compare to Revert a Stored Procedure
Imagine this situation, someone edits a stored procedure on a production server to “fix” something. However, they broke the procedure and you find out the next day. How do...
2025-08-13
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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