What Happens On AWS RDS?
I was talking with some developers from my team about monitoring, and I said, “We all use the same tools,” referring to other monitoring software. Then, it hit me....
2023-02-21
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 20 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate the good qualities of someone in your life. We have a person in Redgate that does a lot of work to support our...
2023-02-20
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Deadline for Microsoft MVP contributions is 20 March 2023
Since changing to the new MVP renewal model, Microsoft MVPs have had until 31 March each year to provide the list of their annual contributions. For 2023, the deadline...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Rotating a Certificate Used by TDE
In terms of encryption, Key Rotation is the process of replacing your encryption keys on a periodic basis. This is considered good practice and is required by many security...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-31)
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Daily Coping 17 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to support a local business with a positive online review or friendly message. When I discover a business I like or one that delivers value...
2023-02-17
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Using SQL Data Compare from the Command Line with a Project
SQL Data Compare (SDC) is a great way to sync data among tables. It’s a software utility analogous to SQL Compare, but working with data rather than schema. I...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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Daily Coping 16 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on being kind rather than being right. This is one of the things that grows my wisdom over time. I don’t need to...
2023-02-16
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Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to look for good in others, particularly when you feel frustrated. We all deal with conflicts with others throughout out lives. How we handle those...
2023-02-15
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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