A Quick Second Opinion
I saw this article and thought, surely there's nothing I could use in here: 10 Best AI Prompts for Everyday Tasks . Quite often, when these...
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A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional's viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral and The Voice of the DBA.
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20 of 121 episodesIndependence Day 2026
Tomorrow is the United States 250th Independence Day celebration. I've been hearing about this on the radio for weeks, and it's struck me th...
Cognitive Coverage
Satya Nadella talked about cognitive coverage in the age of AI, about being able to understand and manage AI agents to get work done as a so...
SQL Server Still Wins
Is it worth continuing to run SQL Server when PostgreSQL licensing is zero? Rebecca Lewis has a well written post on why that looks at some...
I Want to Use My Brain
I had a very interesting conversation recently with a longtime DBA who was worried about using AI in their database work. The Redgate State...
Spending Time in the Office
I've visited a number of customers in the last few years who require most people to work in the office. Recently, I had the chance to go to...
What is the Cloud?
Last week we had a training session at Redgate Software on the Cloud. One of the first slides from John Q Martin asked the question, "what i...
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
Change is inevitable for most of us. The jobs we hold, the places we work, the people we know, even our families grow and change over time....
Follow Your Hunch
For a while, I kept seeing that the cost of writing code was approaching zero . So many people felt that with an AI LLM, the costs would go...
The Slow Growing Problems
Both as a DBA and developer, I've had plenty of immediate, this-is-broken, fix-it-quickly issues. Usually, I, or someone else, wrote some ba...
Would You Retire Rather Than ...
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. I read a few of his books and alternately loved what he'd done and hated having to write C++ code i...
The Data Model Matters
I ran across a statement that seems exciting to me as someone that has written a lot of code in their career. It said: "Many of the "modern"...
Over of Under Provisioned
Lots of people move to the cloud; it's common. In fact, it's very common to hear customers who are being asked to migrate their workloads to...
The New Software Team
One of the things I used to emphasize in talks about DevOps is that no modern software of any significance is built by one person. Everythin...
Limit the Blast Radius
You still need DBAs (that know how to back up systems and test restores). If you think you don't, or if you manager does, then perhaps they...
What Can AI Really Do?
I wonder how many of you have tried vibe coding something with an AI tool. If you haven't, I certainly recommend it. I've been a bit amazed...
There's Too Much to Learn
I remember getting started on SQL Server and trying to upskill myself in the mid-1990s. At that time, my employer was running a SQL Server 4...
The Dangers of Dependencies
Many of us working with databases know the problems of a single point of failure. We build HA/DR technologies into a lot of systems precisel...
Who is Using CAGs?
While talking to a customer a few weeks ago, they mentioned that they used Contained Availability Groups (CAG) everywhere. They also said th...
A Tool is Better than a Script
While working with a customer recently, I heard this sentence: a tool is better than a script. The reference was that this customer preferre...