Tag Archives: Redgate

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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SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

Posted on October 27, 2025 by way0utwest

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series of posts on SQL Clone, which is a virtualization product from … Continue reading →

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The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole

Posted on October 17, 2025 by way0utwest

This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly defined tasks, there is no room for you here if you’re an asshole. This … Continue reading →

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Back in the EU

Posted on September 29, 2025 by way0utwest

I flew to Amsterdam last night and hopefully by the time this publishes I’ll be at my hotel, catching up on messages and prepping for another Simple Talk Podcast recording. This is my fourth trip across the water this year, … Continue reading →

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