My 2024 in Data: Speaking

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

A Very Cool Benefit in SSMS 21

I saw a post from Erin that Preview 2 is available. I’d gotten a message when I started SSMS v21 this morning, but got distracted. I made a short...

Creating a “Real” Copy of a View: #SQLNewBlogger

I saw a post where a developer was trying to read the Information Schema views to create a copy of a view as a “real” table, a user table....

Learning to Grind

Learning to grind away is how you drive your career forward.

Monday Monitor Tips: Am I Patched?

One of the things that I think is neat is that Redgate Monitor helps you track patching on your systems. This is something that has been challenging in every...

My 2024 in Data: Travels

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

Playing with the Data API Builder

I published an article today on the Data API Builder, which is a way of presenting your database tables as a REST or GraphQL API for developers. You can...

The Random Rows

A New Word: Dolonia

dolonia – n. a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone...

FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger

I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases....