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Steve Jones

Denver
As seen in: SQL Server Central, Voice of the DBA, Medium, BBC, Yahoo, The Tennessean, HR Magazine (UK), Tacoma Weekly
Steve Jones -Editor, SQL Server Central and Advocate, Redgate Software. Data Platform MVP, husband, father, volleyball coach, and lover of Hawaiian shirts.
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SQL Server Still Wins

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By Steve Jones
| Voice of the DBA
Is it worth continuing to run SQL Server when PostgreSQL licensing is zero? Rebecca Lewis has a well written post on why that looks at some of the pros and cons of paying for SQL Server instead of moving to PostgreSQL. She starts with some of the things PostgreSQL does well, of which I think the Extensibility is really cool. SQL Server has some of this in CLR and the non-SQL language support, but those seem kludgy and complex to me. They aren’t really integrated into the SQL Server platform.
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Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost

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By Steve Jones
| Voice of the DBA
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost information. I could see this coming in 2015 with the move to the cloud and need to justify the resources provisioned along with sizes. Doing that effectively needs cost information. Redgate Monitor has added a bit of cost information, and the virtual machine section in the Estate tab contains this. This post looks at what is available (as of June 2026). This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor.
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I Want to Use My Brain

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By Steve Jones
| Voice of the DBA
I had a very interesting conversation recently with a longtime DBA who was worried about using AI in their database work. The Redgate State of the Database Landscape 2026 report showed that the vast majority of you (99%) are getting value from AI, so clearly it’s being used. However, this individual was concerned that using AI for tasks would not engage their brain, and they might lose some of their SQL skills. And they want to use their brain at work.
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