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  • The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City

    We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC.

    The Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City comes back on May 5, 2026. You can register today and I’ll see you back in Manhattan the first week of May. Once again Bob Ward is giving the closing keynote, with me and fellow Redgater’s giving the opening one.

    We’ll have three tracks, but I’ll be hosting a session with one of our customers, so you can hear how and why Redgate Monitor helps them out and what it’s like to work with Redgate. We did this in Chicago, and there were some great questions from the audience.

    We’ve chosen customers who have had good experiences, but feel free to ask them anything about how Redgate Monitor works and how we are as a vendor. I’m certainly proud of how we partner with customers, so come get a first-hand view from a large financial services organization.

    New York City is such an amazing place, and we’ll have a drinks reception after, but there is lots to do. I’ll be bringing my wife and we’ll likely go see a Broadway or comedy show the night before. You should do the same.

    We also have a Redgate track and an AI one, so this is a great chance to see how Redgate views the world and how we’re approaching building software that helps you become more efficient inside your organization.

    Register for the Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City and I’ll see you in May.

  • Balancing Life with a Career–Slides

    I had a great time at SQL Saturday Atlanta 2026 this past weekend. I had some good comments and a few questions. I’ll write a bit more on this, but I’ve uploaded the slides (apologies for the delay).

    Balancing Life with a Career

  • Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026

    For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report, based on surveys and research we do every year. I have found it very interesting to see how people respond and what we learn from the report each year.

    This year is no different, with one change; we’re doing a webinar. Register to hear the advocates talk about navigating the database landscape in 2026. Grant, Kellyn, Pat, and myself are set to sit down and discuss the findings on Feb 18 at 1200pm EST.

    We reviewed the report and now each of us is digging in to those areas we are most interested, and we’ll express our thoughts in the webinar. With over 100 years of database experience between us, we hope you’ll enjoy it.

    And we are ready to take your questions and discuss and debate the future of our industry.

    Register today and I’ll see you on Feb 18.

  • The 2026 Redgate Summit Series

    The last few years, Redgate has run a few Redgate Summits in different places. We’ve done one every year in London and added a few other cities along the way.

    This year, we have 4 scheduled (so far). The schedule is listed here, and I’d love to meet some of you at the events. I always enjoy hearing about people’s challenges as well as their complements and criticisms of our software. I find it invaluable hearing both.

    There may be another one or two coming, with plans up in the air, but we’ll see. Personally I like these events and I’d like to see us add one more in the late summer or fall.

    We run these Summits for customers to better get to know us and become closer partners. We want to meet our customers’ needs and ensure we are approaching our development in a way that helps customers get more value from our tools.

    A few of our tracks are generic, not necessarily related to Redgate, but they are full of topics that we think are important, and we present them based on our knowledge, research, and success. The advocates often run these tracks to bring our expertise to the presentations. We also have a Redgate track, where you can see specific solutions or ask detailed questions of our engineers.

    Hopefully you can join us at one of these events this year (or next year).