How Wrong is Stack Overflow?
Steve has a few thoughts on a rant about Stack Overflow. An experienced developer thinks much of their information is wrong and things are getting worse.
2023-08-09
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Editorials
Archive to the Lake
Microsoft Fabric changes the paradigm for how you might store data in your warehouse.
2023-08-07
217 reads
Small Changes, Big Results
Last week I was able to attend THAT conference in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It was my first time in the great state of cheese, and the conference lived up to its reputation. As a developer focused conference (rather than a database conference), I didn't have much expectation that my session about automating database changes would […]
2023-08-05
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Flexible Work Policies are Preferred
New research says that companies with flexible work policies, hybrid or remote, find they are able to hire staff more quickly.
2023-08-04
95 reads
Constitutional AI
There is a company trying to build AI systems in a new way. Steve isn't sure what this means or if it's a good idea. Read his thoughts today.
2023-08-02
212 reads
We're Not Faster with AI
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
204 reads
Looking Back and Forward
I took part in a podcast this week, Arrested DevOps. I did one with them once before, almost ten years ago. The host and I were both a little surprised that it had been so long. This caused us to look back a bit. Interestingly enough, ten years ago meant I was only about two […]
2023-07-29
60 reads
Large PRs are Bad
Reviewing Pull Requests (PR) is something that developers should take seriously, but Steve doesn't think this always happens.
2023-07-28
351 reads
The Minimum Upgrade Point
Today Steve wonders to which version you would upgrade your SQL Server instances. There should be a minimum version you would try to reach.
2023-07-26 (first published: 2019-05-03)
381 reads
Achieving More Autonomy At Work
Most of us want more autonomy at work, but it isn't given out without effort. Today Andy Warren has a few thoughts on how to get more freedom from your boss.
2023-07-24
133 reads
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Foreach Loop still executes after process and delete all the folders
I have two challenges XML source control not displaying the XML file parent node...
Which 'Where' statement conditional upon a variable
Thanks in advance for any clues on this. I am trying to write a...
Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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