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  • The Book of Redgate: Hours

    I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of company I’d want to build if I founded another company. It’s a great place, and one of the things I appreciate is that we value outcomes. One of our values is: . The text on the next page continues the sentence: What you achieve is more important than how long it takes. Building software is challenging, and building software that can be sold…


  • The Cost of Multiple Platforms

    I ran into an interesting post that noted the modern data platform can have a bunch of different systems underlying it. The example might be that your “software” could use PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Clickhouse, and something NewSQL (Spanner, CockroachDB, etc,). Some of you might think that’s not reality, but keep in mind that for a lot of your organizations, the “software” is what the customer uses. I’m sure my bank has multiple systems behind the mobile app…


  • PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder

    Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and one of my talks is on the Data API Builder. I want to show how this gives you REST, GRAPHQL, and MCP access. As a part of the talk, I also wanted to show this working across platforms, so I’m showing this in PostgreSQL as well. I’ve been experimenting this in a few ways, but I decided to see how hard it was…


  • T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours

    It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with me. It’s a memorable one, and it was quite the outage, one that lasted for weeks. Thanks to Marlon for this invite on unforgettable outages.. T-SQL Tuesday is the monthly blog party, and if you want to participate, feel free to write on a blog, Linked In, or…


  • Labor Day 2026: Fun on the Ranch

    It’s Labor Day in the US and I’m not working. Not for Redgate, at least. I’m not even traveling today, which is something that happens all too often on holidays. Today I’m going to be working on the ranch, catching up on a few things. I was up in the air last week, trying to replace a pulley. The bolt in this pulley sheared off. Both ends and the nuts were still there, somewhat rusted to the…


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