AI has moved from experimental to operational in record time for many organizations. In industries like fintech, healthcare, and retail where sensitive PII (personally identifiable information) and relational databases are the backbone of daily operations, this innovation speed to adopt AI brings enormous opportunity, but also significant risks
2025-09-27
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A bit of advice from Steve to ensure you do not neglect the management of your finances for the long term.
2025-09-26
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Today Steve wonders what you might do with extra time if the AI can give it to you.
2025-09-24
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Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.
2025-09-22
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I have been speaking to people about database migrations to the cloud a lot over the last few weeks. One thing that has jumped out at me is that we seem to focus on the process of moving data being the migration rather than one step in a larger process. Many people neglect the discovery […]
2025-09-20
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One of the most prolific and popular authors at Simple Talk has been Phil Factor. He wrote many pieces on all aspects of database work and has probably written more articles on the Redgate Product Learning site than anyone else. He has entertained, informed, and inspired many database professionals in his many years as an […]
2025-09-19
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Many of you reading this likely have an Availability Group (AG) set up on at least one database in your organization. Maybe not most, but many of you as this has proven to be a technology that many people like for HA/DR, upgrades, and probably other uses. As the technology has evolved from it's SQL […]
2025-09-17
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Are the AI tools developers use making them enjoy their jobs more or less? Steve has a few thoughts.
2025-09-15
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I recently had the opportunity to talk a little PostgreSQL with the Salt Lake City PostgreSQL Meetup group (thank you for having me by the way). Great bunch of people who were really engaged and asked a lot of questions. On the way out of the event, I was chatting with one person (who had […]
2025-09-13
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Older technology can introduce security issues, along with performance ones. Keeping your systems somewhat up to date is important for security.
2025-09-12
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I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
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It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
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I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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