Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course

here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.

PASS Keynote Shots

Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...

What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights

Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote that instantly stood out as my favorite of the day “Is it possible? …..Why not!...

Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?

Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many, it feels like a long and exhausting negotiation between ambition and constraint. Everyone knows, it...

Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?

Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?

xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a built-in dry-run option to preview which files it would remove. But there’s a simple workaround,...

Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS

SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you might have hit a wall trying to get it running. Here’s what happened when I...

Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees

TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree. I've built a web tool that helps visualize this tree as a learning exercise.
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2025

Announced at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago were many new product features related to the data platform. Check out the Major announcements and Book of News. I went through the many announcements and picked...

Quantum Computing and SQL Server Article Is Up

In parallel with the presentation I gave at the PASS Data Community Summit on quantum computing's impact on data, I wrote an article specifically on impact with respect to...

SQL Server – What To Do When Disaster Strikes (5-Point Survival Guide)

 SQL Server – What To Do When Disaster Strikes (5-Point Survival Guide)Chill, coffee first.When your SQL Server goes down, alarms are blaring, and managers are hovering, that sentence might...