Imagine the Physical World
Brent Ozar has a series of database animations posts , where he tries to explain what work is done by SQL Server during certain operations,...
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20 of 134 episodesThe Quiet Part
Apparently, Meta did what a lot of employees suspect their management will do: use AI to lay off people. In this case, there is a report (an...
Are You Working More Hours?
Recently, I noticed my son was coming home later and going to work earlier. He typically works a 9/80 schedule as a software engineer, but a...
Finding Bad Queries
T-SQL Tuesday #200 was in July, hosted by Brent Ozar, and it was a great topic: How do you recognize a bad query? In the age of AI, when lot...
Fixing P1 Queries
When we look at the performance of software, we use Pnn notation to indicate the latency of an issue. A P95 problem is one that exceeds the...
Building Your Own Software
Lots of AI usage has been spent inside companies on building new software. Sometimes people are trying to rebuild existing software. I've se...
Make It Routine
The first one is hard. The rest are boring. I heard this statement from someone recently, and it sounds like something a technical person wo...
Another Model, More Data Loss
This past week I saw an article on eWeek that the newest OpenAI GPT-5.6 (Sol) model has deleted local files and live data. Files I'm less wo...
What is CPU Usage?
I had a request from a customer recently who asked if we could give them a report of their database server instances and include CPU usage....
The Mythical Bus Accident
What if I got hit by a bus? I'm sure many of you have heard some variation of this, or used it, or maybe your boss told you to be ready in c...
Security and AI Fail
The AI boom is still growing like crazy. Many organizations are trying to learn how they can use AI to improve operations and become more ef...
Forward Deployed Engineers
I recently recorded a session with Ken Muse and a Redgate Flyway Solution Engineer. It was a fun session using GitHub and AI, and better man...
I Can't Make You Learn
Oh, how I wish I could make you learn. How I wish I could coach, guide, inspire, or even bribe you to learn more about your job, or things r...
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...
Independence 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...