All the Costs of Downtime
Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.
2025-09-22
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Disaster Recovery (DR)
Responding to a Disaster
A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.
2024-08-02
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It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy
I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy.
2024-07-29
2024-04-03
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2024-03-21
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Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022
We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022.
2023-12-01
A Staffing Disaster
An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.
2023-09-29
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How Many Days Can You Survive?
A disaster in LA affected many companies, some of which were innocent bystanders to the event. Steve talks about the need to have some plans in place.
2023-06-05
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Three Mile Island And Your Databases
Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.
2022-08-06
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How Often Do You Update During Issues?
When a disaster occurs and your staff is working on it, what cadence of updates should your customers expect?
2022-08-01
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers