A New Word: Foilsick
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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The Voice of the DBA
A Small LLM Fail
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...
2025-10-29
17 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...
2025-10-28
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SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...
2025-10-27
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Advice I Like: Training Employees
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)
258 reads
The End of Year Vacation Burn
It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve gotten away from work quite a bit this year. I’ve had a few vacations around...
2025-10-20
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The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly defined tasks, there...
2025-10-17
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A Broken Copilot Query
I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into an interesting issue. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. My...
2025-10-16
150 reads
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell who called a stored procedure so I can audit the action? I decided to see...
2025-10-31 (first published: 2025-10-15)
285 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Innova Crysta Car Hire Delhi: A Smart Choice for Comfortable Group Travel
Traveling in a busy city like Delhi often requires a vehicle that is spacious,...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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