The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation for me (as an American) is how well most of the company in the UK...
2026-06-12
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Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A read-only advisory system does exactly two things: it observes and it recommends. It never acts....
2026-06-11
33 reads
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll help a few of you save some time too! It’s not often that I get...
2026-06-24 (first published: 2026-06-11)
407 reads
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I learned something new about the money data type. This post discusses what I learned. Another...
2026-06-10
101 reads
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the database realm the first thing that people do is a straightforward concept, connect the LLM...
2026-06-09
175 reads
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted once before, and agreed to help me out this month by tackling another topic. We’ve...
2026-06-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s topic is chosen by myself, and it’s inspired by a blog post of Alexander Arvidsson....
2026-06-19 (first published: 2026-06-08)
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AI in SQL Server vs PostgreSQL: Vector Search, Embeddings, and RAG Compared
Both SQL Server and PostgreSQL are moving fast into AI territory — and if you manage either (or both), you've probably wondered how they compare when it comes to...
2026-06-22 (first published: 2026-06-08)
712 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Alert Analysis
We keep adding new AI capabilities to Redgate Monitor, where it makes sense. Check out this new feature we’ve added for alerts. This is a great addition to help...
2026-06-22 (first published: 2026-06-08)
223 reads
Keeping your tech ego in check
In my usual twitter doom scrolling, I came across this post the other day Now it’s pretty obvious to me that this is one of the standard “engagement bait”...
2026-06-07
17 reads
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers