A New Word: Etherness
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones, all too aware that even though the room is filled with warmth and laughter now,...
2025-12-19
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The Voice of the DBA
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t do this natively, as this really needs an XEvent session. I decided to see if...
2026-01-02 (first published: 2025-12-17)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it required some work from customers. Now we’ve added native monitoring. This is part of a...
2026-01-05 (first published: 2025-12-15)
278 reads
Advice I Like: Art
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken – from Excellent Advice for Living Interesting advice for living...
2025-12-12
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Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-08)
162 reads
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
20 reads
PASS Keynote Shots
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...
2025-12-04
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Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting, but creating all the objects is a pain. I decided to try creating a physical...
2025-12-01
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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