T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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The Voice of the DBA
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs and DBA tasks. This post shows how GenAI tech can be helpful to DBAs in...
2025-11-24 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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Back at Small Data SF in 2025
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the conference last year and thought it was a great event. Watching people talk about data...
2025-11-05
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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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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
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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)
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Blogs
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
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