A New Word: Redesis

redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might well face a totally different set of constraints and capabilities, any of which might propel...

AIs Struggle with Family

This post looks at a logic problem asked to an AI, and which is struggles at finding an answer. This is based on an article noting this question stumps...

Counting Bits II

Friday Flyway Tips: Autopilot in 10 minutes

The Solutions Engineers at Redgate recently released an Introduction to Redgate Flyway Autopilot course on our Redgate University. They’ve been working on this for quite some time to help...

Unreliable Narrators

Steve has a few thoughts on a interview with Grady Booch, an icon in our industry, who have a great quote on AI technology.

Building a Data Center

A data center is a complex beast. Is it worth building and maintaining your own? Steve has a few thoughts on a data center versus a cloud.

CHOOSing an Alias

Get a PAT in Azure DevOps

I have a presentation recently on Continuous Integration Using Local Agents in Azure DevOps and one of the things I do in there is get a PAT for Azure...

T-SQL Tuesday #183 Invite: Tracking Permissions

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this month I’m hosting. I realized that I didn’t host in 2024 and since I run the thing, I ought to be...

Declaring a Complex PK in a CREATE TABLE: #SQLNewBlogger

Recently I was talking with someone who had not named any of the primary keys (PKs) in their database. They used system generated names and when they ran comparisons,...