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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 the problems we have in data today. The most fascinating aspect of it is how the problems are both exactly the same as we've been working to solve for 20 years, and, totally unique and new. While the cloud, Fabric, analytics, and all sorts of other tech changes our needs, the fundamentals remain the same. Watching our customers deal with these challenges, new, and old, makes this job so awesome. And yet, I still have opinions on what's right, what's wrong, and what's problematic. Further, I know, my opinions, are just that, opinions. At best, educa5ed guesses. Always, ALWAYS, a chance I'm wrong. That's what learning all this stuff is about.

I do think, it's important that you share your opinions. Even if they're wrong, it shows that you're thinking about the problems that you face. But the, that's just my opinion. I certainly could be wrong.

Grant Fritchey

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The Weekly News
All the headlines and interesting SQL Server information that we've collected over the past week, and sometimes even a few repeats if we think they fit.
AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services

We trust GenAI – but should we?

From AllAnalytics

Generative AI (GenAI) adoption is skyrocketing, bu...

From slop to Sotheby’s? AI art enters a new phase

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative A...

The Download: the rehabilitation of AI art, and the scary truth about antimicrobial resistance

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

This is today’s edition of The Download, our w...

Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans

From Ars Technica

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring ...

AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11

From Ars Technica

 

Administration of SQL Server

SQL Server Alerts

From DallasDBAs.com

Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You   Most SQL Se...

Updates and improvements to sp_CheckSecurity

From StraightPath Solutions SQL Blog

It’s been a while since we made some improvement...

Concatenating values as character data including in SQL Server 2025

From Dr SQL

I was looking around for stuff to post about the o...

SQL Just Stops When Running OPENROWSET Query

From StraightPath Solutions SQL Blog

Sometimes people install Office onto a SQL Server ...

Query Plans Pop Quiz Answer #1: Costs are Garbage.

From Brent Ozar Unlimited

In last week’s Query Plans Pop Quiz, the first q...

Curious Case of SQL Server Shutting Down Whenever a Job Runs.

From StraightPath Solutions SQL Blog

This is a post in our new Case of the Week series ...

Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-ins...

One Way to Install SSMS v22 (Preview 3)

From AndyLeonard.blog()

In this post I describe how to install SQL Server ...

A Broken Copilot Query

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

 

PASS Summit 2025 is fast approaching
Cloud - AWS

Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

From AWS News Blog

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized s...

Data Access / ORMs

3 New Features in the Jetpack Mobile App

From https://chrisadkin.io

We’ve been cooking a few major updates for the J...

Data Mining / Data Analysis

Tips for driving public sector productivity

From AllAnalytics

At SAS Innovate in Orlando, our partners share...

ETL/SSIS/Azure Data Factory/Biml

Add the SSIS Extension to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders

From AndyLeonard.blog()

In this post, I explain how to add the Integration...

Microsoft Fabric ( Azure Synapse Analytics, OneLake, ADLS, Data Science)

Monitor Fabric Costs With Fabric Cost Analysis

From Chris Webb's BI Blog

Following on from my blog post a few months ago about cool stuff in the Fabric Toolbox, there is now another really useful solution available there that anyone with...

Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

 

Oracle/MySQL/other RDBMS

Wait Class Monitoring for Oracle in Redgate Monitor

From Blog – Redgate Software

The latest release of Redgate Monitor visualizes O...

PostgreSQL

Shane Borden: Understanding and Setting PostgreSQL JDBC Fetch Size

From Planet Postgres

By default, the PostgreSQL JDBC driver fetches all...

warda bibi: Understanding Disaster Recovery in PostgreSQL

From Planet Postgres

System outages, hardware failures, or accidental d...

Shaun Thomas: What's Our Vector, Victor? Building AI Apps with Postgres

From Planet Postgres

Something I’ve presented about recently (a coupl...

Henrietta Dombrovskaya: Prairie Postgres Birthday Meetup

From Planet Postgres

Huge thanks to everyone who came to the Prairie Po...

Jeremy Schneider: Sanitized SQL

From Planet Postgres

A couple times within the past month, I’ve had p...

Jan Wieremjewicz: Keep Calm - TDE for PostgreSQL 18 Is on Its Way!

From Planet Postgres

If you’ve been following the buzz around Postgre...

Robert Haas: Hacking Workshop for November 2025

From Planet Postgres

For next month, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions ...

Umair Shahid: Configuring Linux Huge Pages for PostgreSQL

From Planet Postgres

Huge pages are a Linux kernel feature that allocat...

David Christensen: Is Postgres Read Heavy or Write Heavy? (And Why You Should You Care)

From Planet Postgres

When someone asks about Postgres tuning, I always ...

Mayur B.: PGConf.EU 2025: The Underground Map for Database Nerds

From Planet Postgres

PGConf.EU schedule can feel like a parallel query gone wild, so many great talks but not enough CPU. I built this guide to help...

Sergey Solovev: Create and debug PostgreSQL extension using VS Code

From Planet Postgres

In this tutorial we will create PostgreSQL extension ban_sus_query. It will check that DML queries contain predicates, otherwise will just throw an error. Next,...

Sergey Solovev: Create and debug PostgreSQL extension using VS Code

From Planet Postgres

In this tutorial we will create PostgreSQL extension ban_sus_query. It will check that DML queries contain predicates, otherwise will just throw an error. Next,...

Nikolay Samokhvalov: #PostgresMarathon 2-008: LWLock:LockManager and prepared statements

From Planet Postgres

 

Professional Development

How Women Are Redefining What It Means To Work In Tech

From Blog – Redgate Software

It’s ‘Women in Tech‘ week and to celebrate w...

Security News and Issues

Apple’s Bug Bounty Program

From Schneier on Security

Apple is now offering a $2M bounty for a zero-clic...

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

From Ars Technica

Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB bloc...

A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted

From Schneier on Security

Here’s the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-...

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

From Ars Technica

Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has...

Tech News

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the...

Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

You live in a house you designed and built yoursel...

Slashdot: "Physicists Inadvertently Generated the Shortest X-Ray Pulses Ever Observed"

From AnAndTech

Physicists Inadvertently Generated the Shortest X-...

This startup thinks slime mold can help us design better cities

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

It is a yellow blob with no brain, yet some resear...

Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship

From Ars Technica

Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw addi...

Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution

From Ars Technica

A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-...

The Lighter Side

A Refreshing Change

From Daily WTF

Dear Third-Party API Support, You're probably won...

The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

This was one of the original values: The facing pa...

The Power of Self-Care: My European Adventures Between Tech Events

From DBAKevlar

Recharging, Exploring, and Sharing Knowledge So My Kevlar Stays Intact The world is always moving fast for me, so it’s

 
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