Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management wants everyone to be more productive with AI. Redgate Monitor isn’t immune from this wave....
2026-03-09
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Bind Variables – Worse than you were told
Many of you probably know Martin Bach. He’s a colleague here at Oracle although we’ve both been good mates in the Oracle community long before either of us joined...
2026-03-09
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector databases — all comes together here! What is RAG? all the AI model has predefined...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-08)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7 we would learn about Vectors and Vector Databases. this is a place where AI data...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now Day 6 is inside of AI , how AI understand us, as computer do not...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has more detail. This is the text from the facing page: What we do is very...
2026-03-06
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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not just posting about shipping—stopped talking about MCP. No dramatic announcement. No hot take thread. They...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we will discuss more on different free notebooks available to write / code LLM and get...
2026-03-05
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Where is my TNSPING?
I’m a big fan of the “instantclient” solution to Oracle connectivity. No more calls to “runInstaller”, no registry files on Windows, it is just download-unzip-go. That makes installation a...
2026-03-05
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Forums
cons for a dev machine in a different version of sql from our prod server
hi, im not a dba. For a couple of years our dev sql server...
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Calculating Geometric Mean in Power...
Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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