One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server environment is the SQL Agent jobs. I can learn a tremendous amount about an organization...
2026-07-01 (first published: 2026-06-16)
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It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You open the terminal and go to work. This post is about what happens next —...
2026-06-16
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I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started using it when it was one of the easiest ways to sync files across machines...
2026-06-16 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic, an IP lookup table, and KQL's anomaly detection to find who did it.
2026-06-29 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 20th…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2026-06-26 (first published: 2026-06-15)
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You paste a slow Redshift query plan into PlanTrace and one of the tuning insights reads "SORTKEY optimization candidate", pointing at an explicit sort step that's adding cost you...
2026-06-15
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As part of my running the SQL Saturday charitable foundation, I get sponsorship money from vendors. Primarily Microsoft and AMD, but I hope to change that in the future....
2026-06-15
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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break into data engineering or AI, nothing on your resume carries more weight than a GitHub...
2026-06-29 (first published: 2026-06-12)
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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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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
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One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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