A New Word: Rubatosis
rubatosis– n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, as...
2024-03-22
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The Voice of the DBA
SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table
I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?
At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-18)
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Friday Flyway Tips – Inserting Column in the Middle of a Table
I had a customer question whether Flyway Desktop (FWD) would cause problems if developers were adding columns into the middle of tables. It’s a valid concern, and this post...
2024-03-22 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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A New Word: Malotype
malotype– n. a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself – a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies – which leave you feeling...
2024-03-15
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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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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
29 reads
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
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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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Blogs
Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
The Book of Redgate: Products
By Steve Jones
We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 7
By Zikato
A fugitive cyber-criminal, a wingsuit, and 24 million flight records. Somewhere between Doha and...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() III
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count(-1)What is returned? See possible answers