A New Word: Foilsick
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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The Voice of the DBA
A Small LLM Fail
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...
2025-10-29
34 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...
2025-10-28
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SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...
2025-10-27
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Advice I Like: Training Employees
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)
276 reads
The End of Year Vacation Burn
It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve gotten away from work quite a bit this year. I’ve had a few vacations around...
2025-10-20
35 reads
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly defined tasks, there...
2025-10-17
191 reads
A Broken Copilot Query
I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into an interesting issue. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. My...
2025-10-16
166 reads
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell who called a stored procedure so I can audit the action? I decided to see...
2025-10-31 (first published: 2025-10-15)
305 reads
Blogs
Speeding Up Patching – Beyond Patch Delivery
By Brian Kelley
I wear many hats in technology, and one of those is as a (cyber)security...
Monday Monitor Tips: Query Recommendations
By Steve Jones
We keep adding stuff to Redgate Monitor, and it’s easy to miss some of...
A Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
By Brian Kelley
The following came across my YouTube feed today. It’s an interview with General James...
Forums
What is the worst part about existing monitoring solutions?
Hi. What is the most difficult aspect of using monitoring software like idera, redgate,...
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