Deploying SQL Server Developer Edition in Kubernetes: A Cost-Effective Alternative to RDS
This article shows how you can deploy SQL Server Developer Edition in an AWS Kubernetes configuration.
Database Development with AI in 2026
This seems like the appropriate first BrentOzar.com blog post in the year 2026, eh?
You Have Homework
I'm very humbled and honored to be able to type this next sentence. My friend, Buck Woody, sometimes gives me book recommendations. Except, with Buck, you have to understand, it's not really a recommendation. It's an assignment. There'll be a test later. You had best have studied. Failing, well, let's not discuss that, it's too […]
Automating Database Cleanup for PostgreSQL Using Python
This article shows a technique for cleaning out older data from PostgreSQL tables using Python to follow a set of rules you create.
There Are a Lot of Databases
Steve notes today that there are many, many database platforms out there you can use for your next application.
Exploiting SQL Server Date Correlation Optimization: How Tampered Backups Enable Cross-Database Data Leaks
This article is a follow-up to SQL Server DBaaS Vulnerability: Decrypting System Code & Exfiltrating User Data, in which we saw some vulnerabilities that affected pretty much all DBaaS offerings available in the cloud. Now, we’ll look at another vulnerability that once again affects every major cloud vendor.
Leveraging DuckDB for OLAP Workloads: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
This next article in the Fabric Modern Data Platform looks at DuckDB, an analytical database platform designed for analytics
More Documentation is Needed
AI is everywhere, and if you spend any amount of time looking for answers on the Internet to your coding challenges, you've likely encountered a lot of poor, average, good, bad, amazing, and just-helpful-enough AI content. For awhile, I was avoiding the AI summary from Google as the quality seemed slightly off, but lately it's […]
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search I
Comparing strings has always been hard when we don't have great data quality. If we need exact matches, SQL Server works great. However, we often expect users to enter values without typos and know what values they want to find. Or at least know part of the string. However, matching with wildcards or partial strings […]
Blogs
Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...
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Removing TDE
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