Balancing Life with a Career–Slides
I had a great time at SQL Saturday Atlanta 2026 this past weekend. I had some good comments and a few questions. I’ll write a bit more on this,...
2026-03-16
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Tooling for Success: The Best FinOps Tools and Technologies
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more than just a good strategy—you need the right tools and technologies to execute that strategy...
2026-03-17 (first published: 2026-03-16)
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From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are efficient, scalable, and reliable. But when it comes to the cloud, one critical piece often...
2026-03-30 (first published: 2026-03-15)
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“We love to debate minutiae”
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue about details in fitness or finances that are more detailed than is useful to them....
2026-03-30 (first published: 2026-03-13)
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Advice I Like: Knots
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand. For the rest of your life, you’ll use this knot more times than you would...
2026-03-13
38 reads
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as cloud adoption has matured, I’ve come to realise that building and running great systems isn’t...
2026-03-12
48 reads
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released patches for SQL Server to address privilege escalation vulnerabilities in supported versions. Time to patch!
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-12)
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Thank you after 21 years
Throughout my long history of working with the Oracle Database, there are some things that often just take for granted, on the assumption that they have always been present....
2026-03-12
70 reads
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture (CDC). That is still what is used to mirror SQL Server 2016 – 2022. SQL...
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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Critical SQL Server Security Patch Alert: CVE-2026-21262 – Patch Today and Start Planning Your Upgrade
I hate writing these posts. On March 10, 2026, Microsoft dropped a security update that fixes CVE-2026-21262 – an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in SQL Server. If you’ve got...
2026-03-11
73 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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