Friday Flyway Tips: Git Integration in Community Edition
Redgate added Git integration to the free, Community edition of Flyway Desktop. I saw the announcement and decided to make this post to show how this can work for...
2024-08-30
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The Voice of the DBA
Moving One File Across Git Branches: #SQLNewBlogger
I was working on some branching and merging with a customer and they wanted to move a file from one branch to another without taking the entire commit. I...
2024-08-28
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Creating a Synapse Workspace
As part of my job, I needed to research how a few things work with Synapse and Fabric. The latter includes the former, mostly. I decided to setup a...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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One Month with the Dell Latitude 7450
It was just over a month ago that I got a Dell Latitude 7450 from our corporate IT group. It wasn’t my first choice, but as Redgate grows, they’re...
2024-08-23
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A New Word: Midding
midding – n. the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it – hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, talking quietly outside a party,...
2024-08-23
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Back to Syracuse for SQL Saturday
Syracuse is having their first SQL Saturday on Sept 7, 2024. I’ll be there and hope to see you there as well. If you’re anywhere close, come on over...
2024-08-22
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Creating a Test Pipeline in Azure DevOps using a Windows Agent
A customer was having some trouble getting started with Azure DevOps (AzDO) and building their database, so we took a step back and decided to create a simple test...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-08-21)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Changing the Fragmentation Alert
I had a customer that was concerned about the fragmentation alert for indexes and wanted to know how to change it. This post discusses the change. This is part...
2024-08-19
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SQL Saturday Denver 2024 Resources
Here are the resources from my talks today. Best Practices for Seamless Database Deployments PPTX slides Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments git repo: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime PPTX slides Some good questions today,...
2024-08-18 (first published: 2024-08-17)
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A New Word: Povism
povism – n. the frustration of being stuck inside your own head, unable to see your face or read your body language in context, only ever guessing how you...
2024-08-16
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Blogs
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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