Simple Talks–Episode 3
The third episode of Simple Talks is out. This is the new Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan, and Louis. The main page is here, and it has links...
2024-08-07
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Clearer Writing at Your Fingertips: Introducing Write Brief with AI (Beta)
From the team at Jetpack AI comes a new tool that will improve your writing in a flash.
2024-08-08 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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dbatools Required Filesystem Access for Database Restores
The Problem While performing an instance migration this spring, I happened upon something I didn’t expect in [dbatools](https://dbatools.io/). It should have been a simple backup/restore copy of the databases,...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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Monday Monitor Tips- Enabling Index Tracking in Redgate Monitor
There is a new index feature in Redgate Monitor, but it’s disabled by default. This post shows how to enable things. This is part of a series of posts...
2024-08-19 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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The Redgate Summit: New York
The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at...
2024-08-05
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PostgreSQL and Instrumentation
I’m still learning PostgreSQL and one of the things I’ve been looking at a lot lately is instrumentation. What do I mean? Well, if you’re in SQL Server, think,...
2024-08-23 (first published: 2024-08-05)
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How much space can I expect to recover from a rebuild after dropping a column?
In my last article - Identify Tables With Dropped Columns - we saw how we can identify tables that have columns that were dropped. Today, we are going to...
2024-08-05
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My Toolbox - SSMS
No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-08-03)
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A New Word: Bareleveling
bareleveling – v. trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’’ll end up calling...
2024-08-02
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Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
47 reads
Blogs
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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers