Down Tools Week 2020 (10 minute video/podcast episode)

In this episode of Dear SQL DBA, I talk about how Redgate runs "Down Tools Week," what I'm working on as part of the project, and how this has...

Things That Shouldn’t Be Normal in Database Development (28 minute video/podcast episode)

Many people use entrenched processes for database development that have been in place so long that it’s hard to imagine doing it any other way. In this episode, I...

Everything I Never Wanted to Know About Collation (14 minute video/podcast episode)

I'm not an expert on collation in SQL Server, but there are a few important facts which I've had to learn the hard way.

In this episode I share...

How to Spell and Capitalize tempdb for SQL Server

No matter what I write in this post, some of y'all are going to tell me I'm wrong. That's inevitable, because I'm writing about tempdb: a database so complex...