Limiting the Ability to Concentrate and Collaborate
Open offices have an interesting side effect: less collaboration.
2025-10-20 (first published: 2018-08-27)
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Editorials
I Love Editorials
Why do I love editorials, I can hear you asking. The answer is simple. It's all about opinions. I have opinions. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them. I'm flying home from Hong Kong after visiting a Redgate customer. They are doing amazing work.. It's so cool getting to see how people are solving […]
2025-10-18
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The Journey to PostgreSQL (or anything)
Learning is fundamental in technology. Steve has a few thoughts on adopting a new technology at work.
2025-10-17
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2025-10-15
108 reads
The Improvement Limit
How much of a difference can you make at a job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-10-13
112 reads
Technological Dinosaurs or Social Dinosaurs?
You're going to have to bear with me on this one because my thoughts aren't fully formed. As I'm sure I've mentioned, I'm a little elderly (and you thought I was going to talk about radios). As such, I've seen the death of a few technologies. I may not have shared this widely, but my […]
2025-10-11
174 reads
Start Fixing Your DB with Better Code
The best way to improve your database performance is with better code. We all know that, but few of us actually end up making those changes.
2025-10-10 (first published: 2017-11-16)
593 reads
Is Rolling Back The Same as Failing?
When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2025-10-08 (first published: 2014-03-04)
301 reads
Getting Fired
When should a DBA get fired? Steve Jones thinks it should be rare and gives you two cases.
2025-10-06 (first published: 2014-03-27)
703 reads
Lessons from the Postmark-MCP Backdoor
The Koi Security team recently uncovered the first known, malicious MCP server in the wild: a package called postmark-mcp, downloaded over 1,500 times per week, that silently BCCs every outgoing email to an attacker-controlled domain. So, what happened? High-level, a lot: The attacker cloned the legitimate Postmark MCP repository, made one small but nefarious change […]
2025-10-04
178 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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