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The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say

This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each other and to customers. Ingeniously Simple was a tagline that our … Continue reading

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Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech

Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs and DBA tasks. This post shows how GenAI tech can be helpful to DBAs in finding blocking and removing the offending client. This is part of … Continue reading

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Data > Hype

There is a ton of hype now about using GenAI for various tasks, especially for technical workers. There are lots of executives who would like to use AI to reduce their cost of labor, whether that’s getting more out of … Continue reading

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Back at Small Data SF in 2025

Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the conference last year and thought it was a great event. Watching people talk about data and how we might look at managing smaller systems, at dealing … Continue reading

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