A New Word: Flashover
flashover – n. the moment a conversation becomes alive and real, when a spark of rust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers or irony, momentarily...
2024-08-30
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The Voice of the DBA
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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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
42 reads
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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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers