Breaking Rules in Rome

Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s Club. I was awarded this, along with our top people in Sales, for the work...

Databases and AI Agents

As part of my wider work exploring Claude Code and AI-assisted database engineering, I have been looking at how AI can support SQL Server operations. A failed job, missed...

Creating a Pulsing Conducting Baton - Part 1

Train Wreck
The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster...

ISACA AI Material/Exam Prep Discount (May 18 – June 30, 2026)

If you are considering any of the ISACA AI certs like the Advanced Artificial Intelligence Audit (AAIA) or the newly release Advanced Artificial Intelligence Risk (AAIR), ISACA will be...

A Fabric solution can be very cost effective

Are you currently using Microsoft Fabric or considering migrating to it? If so, there are a couple of options to significantly reduce your monthly running costs. Firstly, there’s the...

Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log

Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log

If you work with SQL Server long enough, you or someone will eventually want to know, “Did...

Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)

Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working with cloud data platforms, SQL engines, and machine learning pipelines, a handful of titles keep...

SSMS Evaluation – future ready

In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the SSMS plays an important role for handling/Managing SQL Server. we have been using these tools...

Claude.ai vs Claude API

You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and mobile apps) is the chat product you talk to. The Claude API is the developer...

Vanishing objects; hello ORA-08103

In the previous post we saw that even though we had done an exchange partition mid-flights through a query execution, the query kept on running to successful completion. The...