Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent Advice for Living Whenever we read about the success of someone or something, we often...
2026-09-18 (first published: 2026-09-04)
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Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate”. I’ll drop the recording into this post once it’s published. What I...
2026-09-14 (first published: 2026-09-04)
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Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be in a warehouse, the rules may be buried in PDF files, and the explanation may...
2026-09-09 (first published: 2026-09-03)
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Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine until an auditor or an incident review asks for something older. Until now the usual...
2026-09-11 (first published: 2026-09-02)
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Updating the Data API Builder
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to work with the MCP server capabilities. As I was trying to get this working, I...
2026-09-11 (first published: 2026-09-02)
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T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to hear about that one outage that stands out in your memory. We all have incidents...
2026-09-01
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A Daily Report from Claude
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has been gained in bits and pieces and is fragmented. I wasn’t sure I’d get a...
2026-08-31
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A New Word: Gnossienne
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life. One of the things I’ve learned throughout my life is that...
2026-08-28
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Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically provided by me,including examples.Grammarly to catch grammar and sentence construction errors. I did a presentation...
2026-09-09 (first published: 2026-08-27)
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Learning Tool – Deepstash
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key ideas, usually 10-12 per book. If I am thinking about reading a book, I check...
2026-08-27
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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