IT Staffer Fired

An IT staffer is fired after a security incident.

SQL Server Certificates

Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge 2026 (formerly SQL Saturday Baton Rouge). The slides are here: Building an API with DAB...

The SQL Server 2016 Plan

Steve notes SQL Server 2016 went out of support this past week. What are you plans if you run this version?

BIT_COUNT() III

Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego

I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will...

The Book of Redgate: Products

We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that focused on this: The text on the next page is: Shipping something amazing is better...

The Mythical Bus Accident

Preparing for disaster is important, both at work and in your personal life.

A Security and AI Fail

Security is an important consideration for anyone working with data, but it's especially a concern with AI.

Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger

This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something new. I decided to verify what was in the article and do some research. The...