T-SQL Tuesday #182: Personal Integrity
It’s time for the first T-SQL Tuesday blog of 2025, with an invite from the first non-founder to host a party, Rob Farley. I reached out to Rob and...
2025-01-14
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The Voice of the DBA
Grinding Away: Mary Spender
A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led me to Mary’s page and this cover of John Mayer’s Stop This Train: Since then...
2025-01-13
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Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments
One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-10)
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A New Word: Querinous
querinous – adj. longing for a sense of certainty in a relationship; wishing there were some way to know ahead of time whether this is the person you’re going...
2025-01-10
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Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows and tooling. A lot of people have loved SQL Compare or SQL Source Control for...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2025-01-08)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options
Redgate Monitor is growing to include more than just Microsoft SQL Server monitoring. We added PostgreSQL support in 2023 and that continues to grow. This post looks at a...
2025-01-06
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Advice I Like: Experience and Aptitude
Experience is overrated. Most breakthrough accomplishments were done by people doing them for the first time. Therefore when hiring hire for aptitude and attitude and then train for skills....
2025-01-03
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Capturing Ideas for Blogs
As we close out the year, I decided to drop this post here and maybe inspire a few of you to write in 2025. This post looks at some...
2025-01-10 (first published: 2024-12-30)
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A New Word: Lilo
lilo– n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week – which is al...
2024-12-27
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Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant
A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many enterprises think about as their auditors use this as a benchmark. If you’ve never looked...
2025-01-06 (first published: 2024-12-23)
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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