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Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech

Posted on November 5, 2025 by way0utwest

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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Back at Small Data SF in 2025

Posted on November 5, 2025 by way0utwest

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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A New Word: Foilsick

Posted on October 31, 2025 by way0utwest

foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice, your childlike vulnerability – wishing you could somewhat take back the … Continue reading →

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A Small LLM Fail

Posted on October 29, 2025 by way0utwest

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking for Known Data with Copilot One of the things I wanted … Continue reading →

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