Application Developers don’t own their data
As a data guy, I always smile when application developers refer to ‘their’ data. If only it were that simple.
The Product Centric Career
How did you fall in into your particular career? Was it because of a product? Andy Warren talks about his career evolution and how often we become trapped by the products we work with.
Why Primary Keys can be important on large tables
I inherited a database that was getting large and not performing well. After adding primary keys life got better.
Developer Week - Nuremberg, Germany
It's Developer Week in Nuremberg July 14-17. There are a couple of great speakers at this event, like Constantin Small and Sascha Dittmann. Register while space is available
Experiments with NEO4J: Using a graph database as a SQL Server metadata hub
NEO4J, the graph database, can be used to provide answers that are very tricky for relational databases, including providing diagrams to show how SQL tables relate to each other, and the shortest chain of relationships between two tables, as David Poole demonstrates
Lockdown or Let Them Free
Do we take security too far? Are we creating unnecessary rules for those that need to use the resources we support? Steve Jones talks today about security and how we might want to approach it when handling rights for developers.
Running SQL Server Databases in the Amazon Cloud (Part 1)
In this tip, Sadequl Hussain outlines what's involved in rolling out a SQL Server instance in RDS. In subsequent tips, he will explore what features it offers and what shortcomings it has.
Less and Less Visual
Phil Factor ponders the preponderance of text in current database tools, and asks what happened to our glorious graphical future?
Continuous Delivery and the Database
Continuous Delivery is fairly generally understood to be an effective way of tackling the problems of software delivery and deployment by making build, integration and delivery into a routine. Phil Factor explains why he's an enthusiast for databases being full participants in this story, and suggests practical ways of doing so.
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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