A New Word: Vulture Shock
vulture shock – n. the nagging sense that no matter how many days you spend in a foreign country, you never quite manage to step foot in it –...
2023-09-08
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Future Data Driven is Coming Sept 27 for FREE
The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. I have been honored to speak at this...
2023-09-07
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Running Flyway from PowerShell–A Gotcha
I ran across an interesting gotcha while trying to run a Flyway command from PowerShell. Specifically, the snapshot command and providing a parameter that is the snapshot.filename parameter. Someone...
2023-09-06
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The PASS Data Community Summit On Guy in a Cube
I’ve known Adam and Patrick for a long time and I’m thrilled with the content they produce on their Guy in a Cube show. It’s a great resource for...
2023-09-04
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Friday Flyway Tips: Visualizing Undo Scripts
One nice thing with Flyway Enterprise is that it will automatically generate the undo scripts for migration scripts. However, it used to be that finding these and seeing the...
2023-09-01
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A New Word: Merrenness
merrenness – n. the lulling isolation of driving late at night – floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams...
2023-09-01
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Finding Analogies with AI
I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the...
2023-08-31
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Restore with Standby–#SQLNewBlogger
A customer had a question about restoring with standby, so I wrote a quick post to explain how this works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully...
2023-08-30
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Chicago Database DevOps in a Day Workshop
I’m heading to Chicago today for the Redgate Database DevOps in a Day workshops. This is the first of many on the US tour. I’ll be at 5 of...
2023-08-29
23 reads
Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query
One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Blogs
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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...
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BIT_COUNT() III
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count(-1)What is returned? See possible answers