Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge 2026 (formerly SQL Saturday Baton Rouge). The slides are here: Building an API with DAB – Baton Rouge The repo for the code and...
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Using AI for Git Hooks
Recently I had someone internally ask about whether SQL Source Control supports Git Hooks. Since it was after UK work hours, I decided to run a quick test. One problem, I haven’t setup a Git hook in a...
View ArticleDone is Better than Good
Mary Spender is a musician in the UK who I follow and hope to see live one day. She works hard producing content about music, that business, and, of course, songs. Recently she had a little essay on...
View ArticlePoor Name Choice
I wrote recently about some work with Redgate Clone, and one of the things I did was start up a blank container instance of SQL Server from the image named empty-sql-current. This image contains SQL...
View ArticleThe Technical Debt Anchor
I ran across an article on the 7 types of tech debt that can cripple your business, which is a great title. It certainly is one that might scare a lot of CTOs/CIOs/tech management. I am sure that much...
View ArticlePatching the Patch
I had to make a few changes to a SQL Saturday event recently. The repo is public, and some of the organizers submit PRs for their changes, and others send me an email/message/text/etc. for a change. In...
View ArticleShorten the Debate
Many of us are faced with choices and decisions constantly in our jobs. How do we approach a problem? What should we do as a team to get the work done? How do we code or manage or test or do something...
View ArticleThe Pervasive Nature of Open Source
This week there was a headline that said “Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds” and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it’s not in the apps I work...
View ArticleDistributed Monoliths
I was watching a video called Microservices are Technical Debt. In it, the person being interviewed said that a lot of people really have a distributed monolith. That caught my eye since I’ve worked...
View ArticleSeparate Reads
Recently I was watching a presentation on how to scale performance in your SQL Server environment and one of the suggestions was setting up Availability Groups (AGs) and having read-intent connections...
View ArticleWhat Metrics Do You Collect?
One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics,...
View ArticlePolyglot Persistence
I’ve seen the term polyglot persistence floating around Redgate a bit recently in the marketing department. I haven’t really seen this term anywhere, and I wonder if you have. If you have, drop a...
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T-SQL Tuesday #170–Abandoned Projects
It’s the first T-SQL Tuesday of the new year. As we move forward, this month’s invitation is neat in that it’s looking back to learn how to move forward. I think while many people do look back, they...
View ArticleDoes Management Care About the Database?
Many of the services that businesses use are taken for granted. In an office, management expects electricity, water, and heat just work. If they don’t, then often a crisis is declared and funds are...
View ArticleThe Code Review Checklist
Early in my career as a developer, I was required to follow a formal process to get the code I’d written deployed to production environments. Each time I’d written code, I had to document what I’d...
View ArticleRunning a Service
Many of us work for some organization and we’re responsible for managing a database or coding some application or some other data related position. Perhaps we ensure reports work for our users or move...
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Setting up a Local http Server with Node
Setting up a local web server was something that I haven’t done in a long time and this was really easy. This post shows how to do this with a command line node web server. A Need Most software that...
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Experiments with GitHub CoPilot
There has been a lot of attention given to ChatGPT and AI over the last month or two. I’ve tried a few things with the public interface at Open.ai. Some worked well, like this one: Others not so well:...
View ArticleCreating Documentation
Who should create documentation for software? In many companies, it’s the developers. In fact, in Redgate, often our developers are tasked with updating articles for products on our documentation site....
View ArticleLiving With Broken Software
I travel quite a bit every year. Over 20 trips in 2022 and five trips in the first quarter of 2023. To make life easier, I have a few routines that I use to ensure that travel goes smoothly and I don’t...
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