Your Computer Science Education
Steve wants to know how and what you learned about computing, as well as what was missing.
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues
In this article, we examine the effect of local variables on T-SQL queries and how these could potentially cause performance issues.
A New and Improved Data Warehouse: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next installment, John performs the research you might do if your management asked you to examine Fabric.
Do You Have the Gifts to Be a DBA?
This editorial was originally published on Jul 13, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. I recently had the pleasure of catching Paul McCartney in concert, and he was amazing. I have been a fan forever and have heard him tell the same stories he over and over with great delight. […]
Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit
This section gets into detailed SQL Server configuration details. This is less relevant in a cloud environment, but there are still items to confirm.
A Lack of Architecture and Planning
Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.
Data Prediction with SQL Server Machine Learning Services, Python, and Linear Regression
Lean how to implement linear regression in SQL Server by running Python code on your data in SQL Server using Machine Learning Services.
Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT
This article explores how enabling READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT on your SQL Server database might ease excessive blocking.
Analyzing Breached Data
After a recent data breach, Steve read about an analysis of the data. He has a few thoughts on the process that Troy Hunt went through to dig into the data.
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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