Advice I Like: Failure
If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a great quote, especially for those of...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-14)
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If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a great quote, especially for those of...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-14)
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One of the language changes in SQL Server 2025 that I’ve seen a lot of people mention is the addition of RegEx functions to T-SQL. I decided to take...
2025-11-12
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I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as well. There are more things in this release than I expected, probably because of the...
2025-11-11
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Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook to integrate with ServiceNow. However, they were also trying to integrate in a richer way...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs and DBA tasks. This post shows how GenAI tech can be helpful to DBAs in...
2025-11-24 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the conference last year and thought it was a great event. Watching people talk about data...
2025-11-05
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foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...
2025-10-29
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By Andy Warren
Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that...
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
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What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers