A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one correctly for small tables or queries that return most of a table's rows. The dangerous...
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to...
2026-06-12 (first published: 2026-05-24)
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Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling tools that help you. If we do a good job, we make money. If we...
2026-05-22
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I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my DataGrillen session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform to Github. If...
2026-05-22
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If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a few aggregations — and watched your machine struggle — there's a better tool for the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-21)
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What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have started with tables. We ask where the data lives, what columns are available, how the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A colleague was having some trouble with the code, but what struck me was that I...
2026-06-08 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your reporting needs. Excel is probably the most adopted piece of software out there, and I...
2026-06-08 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the invitation post, I intentionally kept the prompt broad because change detection looks different depending on...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-05-19)
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Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage workload concurrency. Redshift's Workload Management (WLM) queues enable you to control how queries share resources,...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-05-18)
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By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
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