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A quiet day today with most of Redgate taking the day off. A company holiday. I lost part of a day last week to ranch chores and I need to get ahead of some travel, so I'm having a day without meetings or slack messages.

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What is Deferred Name Resolution? voiceofthedba.com/2025/03/03/w...

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Today's editorial: A Poor Data Model voiceofthedba.com/2025/03/03/a...

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An internal mental health panel today at RG. One of the cool things about the company, in addition to trying to support employees, we're donating to a relief fund in Pasadena for each attendee.

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Book Review: A Radical Enterprise voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/28/b...

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Today's editorial: Your Biggest Data Model Complaints voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/28/y...

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Advice I Like: Investing and Growing Rich voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/28/a...

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The London Redgate Summit voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/28/t...

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RIP Gene Hackman. Favorite movie besides Hoosiers? Absolute Power stands out for me, and Get Shorty (which I love). So many good ones that I'm not sure what I'd pick

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Early morning here taking a kid to the airport. Watching the morning commute at 530a brings back memories of those days I had to be in the office by 7

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Today's editorial: Why Not Use AI? voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/26/w...

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T-SQL Tuesday #183: Improving Permission Management #tsql2sday voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/26/t...

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If you want to volunteer for the program committee and shape content at the @PASSDataSummit , apply now:

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SQL Conf() 2025 | Developer Marathon on 26 Feb. I'm intrigued, but no schedule of what's covered: developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto...

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I wrote about Flyway Autopilot in 10 minutes, but tomorrow you can watch our solution engineers do this live. Join the webinar: www.red-gate.com/hub/events/a... Or check out my post: voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/07/f...

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Whew, remembered to update my CC for the #tsql2sday domain renewal. We're on for another year.

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Monday Monitor Tips: VLF Alerts voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/24/m...

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Today's editorial: Trust is a Funny Thing voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/24/t...

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Today's editorial: Moving On After a Technology Fail voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/21/m...

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Another day, another security issue: techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/u... Thanks to @dbakevlar.bsky.social for the morning of SMH

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A New Word: Tangency voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/21/a...

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We are looking for hosts for #tsql2sday for these months. Would love to see some new hosts. Jun Jul Sep Oct Nov Dec

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SQL Prompt should be working in SSMS21 Preview, but a few steps to follow: documentation.red-gate.com/sp/getting-s... Note: I had to restart SSMS 2-3 times for this to work

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The next Simple Talks podcast will tackle the State of the Database Landscape report (www.red-gate.com/solutions/en...). We're recording in a bit. Anything you want to know more about?

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Making a PostgreSQL Backup in a Container voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/19/m...

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Today's editorial: Is Ransomware Fading? voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/12/i...

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Interesting read: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Deceptive Patterns (in software)

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Webinar: Migrating to Azure SQL from @PASSDataSummit and @datavail . Register to learn more, and you could win a ticket to the Summit. www.red-gate.com/hub/events/m...

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Incorporating AI impacts in BLS employment projections <- We need more data professionals

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The less than interesting submissions over a weekend

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Republish: The Change Failure Rate voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/17/r...

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Choosing to not drive the Tesla voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Today's editorial: How Much Linux Do You Need? voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/14/h...

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Advice I Like: Transactions and Relationships voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/14/a...

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Not as chilly as this today, but still cold. This was 0F yesterday. Today we got to 0C

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Today's editorial: The End of Azure Data Studio voiceofthedba.com/2025/02/12/t...

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