Becoming a Presenter: My Journey and Tips
I still remember my very first presentation many years ago. Someone in my team asked me to demo a project I’d been working on, and I was absolutely terrified....
2025-06-17
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AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Cloud Mastery
In an era where cloud computing drives innovation, understanding its fundamentals is no longer optional—it’s essential. The AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification is the perfect starting point for anyone...
2025-06-17
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Are Your Disks Lagging?
Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...
2025-06-17
27 reads
Moving to Rancher Desktop
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop and desktop. However, a corporate decision was made to move to Rancher Desktop, so I...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-16)
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Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building a new data integration solution. You’d establish connections to one or more source datasets, review...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-16)
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ADF: Publish suddenly includes everything where it used to be incremental changes since the last publish
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted to republish every single object, claiming they were new, despite having incrementally published changed objects...
2025-07-02 (first published: 2025-06-15)
232 reads
Beginner’s Guide: Create a File Organizer CLI Tool in Rust
Image from Afdhaluddin on ShutterstockCLI which is generally referred to as Command Line Interface is a terminal or console interface which allows the user to interact with a software...
2025-06-14
179 reads
The Third Sabbatical
I can’t believe I’ve been at Redgate long enough to get a third sabbatical. I’ve very lucky to have this job, still enjoy it, and get the benefit. I’ve...
2025-06-13
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Advice I Like: Focus on what’s important
Don’t let someone else’s urgency becomes your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. –...
2025-06-27 (first published: 2025-06-13)
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Is Air Travel Still Safe? | Ahmedabad Plane Crash 2025 Explained | Aviation Safety & AI Solutions
Is Air Travel Safe? Yes, air travel remains statistically the safest mode of transportation. In 2024, the global accident rate was 0.80 per million flights, with fatal accidents being extremely rare....
2025-06-13
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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...
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
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A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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