Today's editorial: A Full Shutdown

The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if ensure I could easily refresh dev and test environments on demand. In a small startup, we wanted to be sure our weekly releases worked well, so if we found bugs…

I tried FSD for the last month. Some things are very impressive, but it doesn't really fit my life well for the cost. Just don't feel I need it (yet). 1/2

39% of organisations still rely on manual testing & deployment for database changes. In hybrid and multi-platform estates, that makes it harder to trace changes, ensure consistency, and release with confidence. See what the 2026 research reveals ↓ rd.gt/3OVSZT8

T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find new hosts over the last few years to keep this party going and to expand the ways in which people look at database work. There are definitely less bloggers, but in the age of AI, I think the more…

Aging is hard. Losing some of my days to take care of a FIL with some memory issues. This scares me as someone getting older.

I find myself using a calendar more and more to schedule things for myself and block time. It feels like an AI could help here, but not sure that it would save me time over just building my own appointment.

Today's editorial: Not Just an Upgrade

Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management wants everyone to be more productive with AI. Redgate Monitor isn’t immune from this wave. We have spent a lot of time over the last year trying to learn about AI tech,…

An few upgrades to #SQLPrompt, some features graduating, some new things. Check out the blog: www.red-gate.com/blog/sql-pro...

It's got to be 5:00 in the UK by now? Does that mean I can have a beer? Well, amber ale.

Today's editorial: Writing as an Art and a Job

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has more detail. This is the text from the facing page: What we do is very difficult, the current situation is hard to understand ,and the future is uncertain. Mistakes are an inevitable consequence of attempting…

Is it my birthday tomorrow? I have no meetings scheduled

Quite the spread of submissions

Discussing AI with colleagues. How is it going to change the challenges we face as tech professionals? Even as I discuss this, I find myself waffling around about whether this is good or bad for jobs and tech people. How will it change things? 1/

Rollback vs. Roll Forward The Advocates at Redgate Software had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point at which you discover a problem. You can watch the episode, but a few things occurred to me while we were having our discussion.…

Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage your database code as a project and see what changes are being built. However, many of our customers end up working with multiple databases, so there is a need for multiple projects. This post…

Editorial Republish: Detecting Issues It’s the Redgate company wellbeing data, where everyone gets the day off. I’m traveling back from Florida after coaching all weekend, so you get to re-read Detecting Issues.

A Wellbeing Day at Redgate It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where everyone gets the day off. Well, not everyone, but anyone that has to work today gets to take another day off. I missed last year’s day because of travel and commitments, but I managed to take a…

Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central When we started the site, I had never met most of the other co-founders (we went from 7 to 3 inside of a few years). A few knew each other, but Brian, Andy, and I had only communicated through emails and phone calls. We ran the company remotely from…

A New Word: on tenderhooks on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which makes you feel that much more rooted to the world, even if the roots belong to someone else. I feel this all the time with my wife. She needs me, maybe as much as I need her. She…

Today's editorial: Testing is Becoming More Important

Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran into this while trying to solve a problem recently and had to check the error I was getting. This post shows what happened. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully…

Security gonna matter more in the age of AI: Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums www.popsci.com/technology/r...

The 2026 Redgate Summit Series The last few years, Redgate has run a few Redgate Summits in different places. We’ve done one every year in London and added a few other cities along the way. This year, we have 4 scheduled (so far). The schedule is listed here, and I’d love to meet some of you at…

@redgate Summit Chicago prep morning. We're getting ready for a fun even on Mar 12. Are you coming? Register and join us for a day of learning about databases, AI, the and the new world with experts from industry. www.red-gate.com/hub/events/r...

Today's editorial: Can You Let Go of Determinism

Rolling Back a Broken Release We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode and see what you think, but one thing that Pat asked was about rolling back a broken release. I’ve seen…

Today's editorial: Doing Good at SQL Server Central voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/20/d...

Advice I Like: In 100 Years voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/20/a...

Issue with #sqlserver 2025- SQL Server might become slow or unresponsive after creating or bringing online a large number of databases

Just a few weeks before the Redgate Summit in Chicago. Prepping sessions now, well, after a webinar today, and looking forward to a fun event discussing the challenges for databases today. www.red-gate.com/hub/events/r...

Today's editorial: Engineer Lessons voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/18/e...

RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/18/r...

@FlywayDb Github action is live:

Should you rollback? The @redgate advocates discuss this in our latest @simple_talk podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uln...

Today's editorial: Tools You Need voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/16/t...

Today's editorial: Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/14/m...

Today's Editorial: Expanding into Print voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/13/e...

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/06/t...

Today's editorial: The Power of Data and Privacy voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/11/t...

Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler @redgate voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/11/s...

Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026 voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/10/w...

Aging Code for T-SQL Tuesday #195 voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/10/a... #tsql2sday

Today's editorial: The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/09/t...

Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/09/c... #AIExperiments

Today's editorial: When SQL Server Central Went Down voiceofthedba.com/2026/02/06/w...

A New Word: Dolorblindness voiceofthedba.com/2026/01/30/a...

Very cool suggestion for SQL Prompt. It's something that would certainly help with those IN lists. Vote if you agree redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413...