Atlanta for Two Days
Today is the first Redgate Summit of 2024 in Atlanta. I flew to town yesterday, There is a packed schedule, which is mostly repeated at our other events coming...
2024-03-13
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The Voice of the DBA
Friday Flyway Tips–Undoing Development Changes
I had a customer ask about undoing changes made by developers, similar to what SQL Source Control does. I had to do a little research to show how to...
2024-03-15 (first published: 2024-03-08)
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A New Word, err Phrase: loss of backing
loss of backing– n. an abrupt collapse of trust in yourself – having abandoned a resolution, surrendered to your demons, or squandered an opportunity you swore you’d take seriously...
2024-03-08
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Book Review: My Effin Life
This is very off topic, but I’ve been a fan of Rush since I was about 12 years old. Their Moving Pictures This is a few thoughts on Geddy...
2024-03-06
151 reads
The Redgate Summit in Atlanta
Navigating the Database Landscape is the headline of our Redgate Summit in Atlanta on Mar 13. I’m doing the Keynote with Grant Fritchey and Kathi Kellenberger with this title,...
2024-03-04
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Friday Flyway Tips–Quick Command Line Access
One of the things I had to do recently in a demo was access the Git command line. The way I did it impressed a customer, so I put...
2024-03-01
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A New Word: Aesthosis
aesthosis– n. the state of feeling trapped inside your own subjective tastes – not knowing why you find certain things beautiful or ugly, only that you do – wishing...
2024-03-01
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A First Look at Redgate’s Subsetter
I have been a proponent of subsetting databases in dev/test for a long time. It took awhile, but as part of the Test Data Manager that Redgate launched at...
2024-03-11 (first published: 2024-02-28)
327 reads
Foreign Keys in SQL Data Generator
A customer recently asked about using FKs in SQL Data Generator, and I decided to write a short post showing how these work. The Scenario I’ve got a copy...
2024-03-06 (first published: 2024-02-26)
329 reads
A New Word: Proluctance
proluctance – n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you’ve been looking forward to – opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who’s finally back in...
2024-02-23
41 reads
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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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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