Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
Databases with MAXSIZE Set
Every DBA needs to appropriately manage database growth. No DBA wants an application to fail because the database is out of space. A database can run out of space a number of different ways. One of those ways is to set the MAXSIZE of a database. When the database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone tries to add more rows they will get an error saying the database is full.
Jobs You Wouldn't Expect To Be Threatened By Tech But Are
Will there be a fair balance between the coming generations of technology and the human workforce? Here is a list of industries that may not think yes.
Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
Hyper-V and PowerShell: Shielded Virtual Machines
In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.
Idle Connection Resiliency
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
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Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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