The Book of Redgate: Do Your Best Work

One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do the best work of your life. I’d like to think that at most points in...

A Conversation That Refused to End: What We Learned from Our First Event in Zurich

On May 8, 2025, we hosted our first official event in Switzerland at Prime Tower, Zurich. The gathering marked an important step in our journey to support organizations as...

A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta

Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so do that if you can make it. Here’s the rough outline Vision Session – w/...

Stop Wasting Time Rebuilding Indexes Every Night

Too many IT teams run index rebuild jobs on autopilot. Every night. Every index. No questions asked. Here’s the truth: if you’re doing this daily on indexes smaller than...

SQL Data Type Conversions: Your Key to Clean Data & Sharp Queries

If you're a data analyst juggling varied datasets, mastering SQL data type conversions isn't just handy—it's crucial. Whether you’re making different data types play nice together or boosting query...

T-SQL Tuesday #186–Agent Jobs

It’s that time of the month again, when the T-SQL Tuesday blog party takes place. I manage this site, and am looking for hosts all the time. This month...

T-SQL Tuesday #186 - Agent Job History Visualization

I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools...

KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 2

The people of Digitown are being targeted by phishermen, and they need my help to stop them in their tracks.
The problem

The police have asked for our assistance, and we’ve...

SQL Saturday NYC Recap 2025

My first time at SQL Saturday New York City was an absolute blast! Thank you so much to the organizers and the incredible people who chatted with me during...

SSMS 21

Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio...