Requiring Technical Debt Payments
Steve found someone using an interesting approach to get developers to address some technical debt.
2025-09-08
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Editorials
2025-09-06
156 reads
Guidelines and Requirements
We have some requirements that we meet a particular setting or value, but often we have guidelines and recommendations. Do you know the difference?
2025-09-05
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Concerns over AI Chat Privacy
Many of the GenAI services are using the free model of the past, where they use your data in ways you might not expect. Now, a court is ensuring OpenAI keeps your chat data around.
2025-09-03
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How Much Can You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2016-04-08)
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Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Steve has a few thoughts on the lack of data sovereignty in the cloud, with an outlook that isn't very positive.
2025-08-29
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2025-08-27
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2025-08-25 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Why Tech Events Matter for Data Pros (and why I’m grateful)
I just got back from the Redgate Summit events in New York City, where I had the chance to present, swap stories, and nerd out with a lot of brilliant data folks. I came home energized… and then promptly slept for 14 hours on Thursday. That’s the best kind of exhaustion in my book. The […]
2025-08-23
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Your Favorite Improvement
This Friday Steve asks about what you're looking forward to in SQL Server 2025, if anything.
2025-08-22
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Question of the Day
Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers