Cool AI sites
As I researched and wrote my OpenAI and LLMs blogs (see Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs, Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs – Part 2 and Introduction to OpenAI and...
2025-02-07 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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Blog Posts
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...
2025-02-07
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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...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-27)
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Take over Ownership in Microsoft Fabric
When you create an item in Microsoft Fabric (a notebook, a lakehouse, a warehouse, a pipeline …), you are also the owner of the item. There has been an...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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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...
2025-02-04
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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,...
2025-02-03
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Monday Monitor Tips: Using the PowerShell API
Redgate Monitor has grown tremendously from its early days and I find many customers using this to monitor lots of servers, like thousands. In those cases, some of tasks...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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Using OneLake for Excel Files in Microsoft Fabric
Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into in Microsoft Fabric. I won’t go into all the context, but the goal was to...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-21)
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Advice I Like: Why am I doing this?
You are never too young to wonder “Why am I still doing this?” You need to have an excellent answer – from Excellent Advice for Living I’d say that...
2025-01-31
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Another AI Faux Pax
I was experimenting with a local model (article) and as a part of this, I pulled down a web interface for my model in a container. I ran it...
2025-01-31 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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