SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First

Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how we look at the “Engine.” We moved from Service Packs to a faster world of...

Google Moves Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline

In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography are susceptible to Shor's Algorithm in quantum cryptography. Cracking those algorithms with classical computing is...

The Book of Redgate: No Politics

In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this value: In our context, this was about being open and transparent. This is the text...

The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025

A while back I posted about a couple of side projects that I’ve been working on when I get the chance. One of those was the Burrito Bot…a bot...

SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016

Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the revolutionary of SQL Server till SQL Server 2025. I would like to brief more on...

Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Atlanta 26) last week (see the FabCon keynote here). There were 8000 attendees! Here...

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)

Originally published in 2023, this post never made it into Google's index, so I'm republishing it...

The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City

We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC. The Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City comes back on May 5, 2026. You...

Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025

I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL Server 2025. The latest version of mirroring that uses the SQL Server Change Feed is...

Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds

At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert thresholds in Redgate Monitor and decided to write a little about this. This is part...