Category Archives: Editorial

A Prompt Engineer

Posted on April 10, 2023 by way0utwest

No, Redgate Software isn’t hiring for SQL Prompt. I’m sure quite a few of you depend on SQL Prompt and would like more engineers working on it. Maybe a few of you would find that an interesting piece of software … Continue reading →

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Information Schema Strangeness

Posted on April 5, 2023 by way0utwest

There was a Slack thread at Redgate recently where a developer was showing some code where they decided to use the “extra” column from the information_schema.columns view. They were making decisions on how to detect certain metadata about a column … Continue reading →

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Living With Broken Software

Posted on April 3, 2023 by way0utwest

I travel quite a bit every year. Over 20 trips in 2022 and five trips in the first quarter of 2023. To make life easier, I have a few routines that I use to ensure that travel goes smoothly and … Continue reading →

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Has SQL Server Performance Improved?

Posted on April 1, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw a very interesting blog post this week from Brent Ozar that asked if SQL Server 2019 More CPU-Intensive Than SQL Server 2016? You can read the post, but a client was having CPU issues and thought everything between … Continue reading →

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