• Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204

    This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and also has agreed to start taking over some of the T-SQL Tuesday management. Mike Walsh and StraightPath Solutions will steward this, but Jeff will likely do a lot of the day-to-day (or month-to-month). In any case, I hope you support him and more of you participate, even if it’s a post on LinkedIn. This month Jeff asks about blogs, which is kind of…


  • PASS Summit Week

    This week is the annual PASS Data Community Summit. I’m up in Seattle, getting ready for the event. This year the conference is a little shorter. Rather than being gone from home for an entire week, I arrived last night and am heading home on Thursday. That’s nice as I’ve been gone a lot this year. My fun with travel post looked at my travel and contained a lot of blue lines in 2026. In any case,…


  • Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)

    I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this for some time and we now have Databricks and Snowflake support. I’ve been working with Flyway and Flyway Desktop and helping customers improve their database development. This series looks at some tips I’ve gotten along the way. Analytic Platforms There has been tremendous growth in the usage, and the capabilities of many major analytics platforms. A few years ago Snowflake was the dominant…


  • I Love Creative People

    LGTM (Looks Good to Me) is a song about AI and the way it’s been used, or maybe how a lot of people think it’s been used in organizations. I find it catchy, creative, and most importantly, funny. I chuckled out loud. As a side note, this is one of the amazing things I see with technology these days. There are many incredibly creative people who do amazing things. Even the music/reels/etc. that I don’t like can…


  • The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images

    We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate – 2012 edition, the book opens with a photo album of the early years. We’ve got a bunch of images from up high, where employees were spelling out our anniversaries. We have the 12th anniversary here, with a disorganized view. and an organized one. There are other photos in the book as well, which mimic what we have in the offices. In each location,…