At Redgate Software, we've been trialing Copilot from GitHub with our developers. I managed to get access for this experiment and have tried a few things, though I'm not sure I've found it very useful. I'll continue to work with Copilot, but for now, I just don't find Copilot AI helping me with the types […]
2023-07-31
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Steve talks about a sabbatical as an amazing corporate benefit and is planning his third.
2023-04-21
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2020-08-18
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In Redgate Change Control v3.0, you can now commit your database changes to your local Git repository and collaborate with your team by pushing and pulling changes from the remote Git repository. If you’re using branches, you can also create and switch Git branches from within Redgate Change Control.
2020-08-04
2020-05-08
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This editorial was originally published on Jan 9, 2020. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. Test data is hard to come by, and I agree with Brent Ozar: " I get so frustrated when I hear trainers/presenters/bloggers/idealists talk about how developers should be using purpose-built-from-scratch data sets with no real customer […]
2023-06-07 (first published: 2020-01-09)
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2019-11-21
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When we started SQLServerCentral, there were originally 7 of us. We all decided to "invest" $50 to get the site going. With this seed money, we paid for a VM that hosted both SQL Server and IIS. This was enough money to run the site for 6+ months, and we set about building an online […]
2019-09-04
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2019-08-13
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A data catalog is a way of classifying and adding metadata about the information in your database for compliance purposes. Take a look at how one DBA is using Redgate's Data Catalog.
2019-07-11
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By Steve Jones
I’m heading to Boston next week for SQL Saturday Boston 2023. I went to...
By Steve Jones
We’ve been doing some events as part of the Redgate Roadshow, and at one...
By James Serra
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data...
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